Is there any advantage at all to the Samourai way of coinjoining? From this graph alone it seems like the Wasabi implementation just makes a lot more sense, but since I'm not an expert on this I might be missing something. Anyone who can steelman the Samourai approach?
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None. It's just inefficient for no good reason.
They claim it prevents address reuse, among other things. But all they're really doing is lifting that reuse one more transaction removed, which doesn't really make any difference.
Sure Todd, the difference is so negligible that Wasabi reusing addresses has put people in jail.
No difference at all after you trust a protocol to hide your traces.
Yes, it may seem "inefficient" at first glance, but this people are trying to deceive you... In the end this design that's a tradeoff that was known in the beginning as in the end you don't mix for efficiency you do it for effectiveness of really breaking the past history of your accounts.
C'mon ask max why do they blend to work with chainalysis, and how many people have been caught by address reuse after using Wasabi coinjoin... Surely reusing addresses is super efficient and sleeping with the enemy to catch "bad guys" is too.