Great news for those who value their rights to transact privately and protect their financial affairs from prying eyes of undesirable actors. BTCPayServer, free open source software that allows merchants as well as individuals accept bitcoin payments without additional fees or intermediaries,
adds a CoinJoin plugin for obfuscation of history of transactions.
What I can say about this news is that it is fascinating to witness how such well-known and widely used services adopt privacy-enhancing technologies thereby contributing to their development and dissemination among ordinary people. Such additions make people more interested in protecting their privacy, and if it is available out-of-the-box, it is more likely to be used by default. Thus, more people will be making confidential transactions without fuss or muss with the help of convenient tools like that.
Here is the rub, however:
they will use Wasabi coordinator as their default coordinator.According to
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coinjoin-plugin-btcpay-server/The main coordinator run by ZKSnacks submits inputs to a chain surveillance firm.
If this is true then we won't achieve nothing with this plugin; if it is used with default coordinator, we just exchange one type of surveillance for another.
I'd like to see the adoption of privacy-protecting techniques but without Wasabi coordinator who only do the opposite and attacks yhe privacy of users instead.
