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Both are centralized coordinators is a trade off.

Wasabi uses fees to pay Chainanalysis to survey and block users. If you are found on the blacklist the coordinator confiscates your bitcoin that you are coinjoining. They technically get the best anonymity set because they do large coinsjoin approx 250 input and 250 outputs

Whirlpool doesn’t use coinjoin fees for Chainanalysis, best UI by far of any coinjoin implementation, easily integrated in Sparrow. Centralized coordinator is a downside. Smaller anonymity set because only 5 inputs and 5 outputs per coinjoin but can do multiple coinjoin rounds
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Max 2y ago

Unfortunately there are no decentralized coinjoin implementations currently, and the existing theoretical concepts have difficulties to scale and work reliably under adversarial conditions.

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Chris Alaimo 2y ago

I know this is true for Wasabi / Whirlpool but correct me if I’m wrong, but JoinMarket is decentralized unless I’m missing something. With no central coordinator it can take longer to get a coinjoin because it is maker/taker model obviously less anonymity compared to Wasabi and Whirlpool.