Picking up the baton.
Going to need to review the code to be safe, but this is a *HUGE* step in the right direction again, after a momentary but debilitating step backwards on #Bitcoin privacy. 😱
"Decentralized Whirlpool : Stage 1
Today marks a huge milestone and we are excited to announce the release of an update to the Whirlpool protocol. Going forward Whirlpool client and Whirlpool Coordinator communication is now well on the road to being purely decentralized, running over Soroban; the app agnostic Tor based communication protocol.
As of today there is no longer a single hard coded Coordinator server that your mixing clients are looking for, instead Coordinator server discovery is automatic through the encrypted Soroban network. This means that even if a Coordinator goes offline unexpectedly, downtime and disruption will be minimal as clients use the Soroban network to find a replacement Coordinator server.
We call this first stage of decentralization "Whack-A-Mole"."
#whirlpool #decentralized