Do you really think I'm here to cause trouble? Not worth any effort to educate, not even a couple minutes and a few sentences?
Chaumian mints may not know exactly which IP goes with which UTXO but they know which IPs as a group and they define which UTXOs. Smaller the less the privacy set.
The whole point of Bitcoin was eliminating most of the problems with Chaumian mints! Satoshi even said, and I think a quotebot just posted this one, that "the centralisation of federations and third parties doomed previous efforts to do ecash in the 90s and 00s.
I used egold. I met some of the slimebags that were doing HYIPs back in those days.
If you don't think a) I'm a legitimate human being worth any time at all and b) that I'm being hostile well, fine. GFY. I don't need to see your shit either.