Everyone here is screaming about coinjoins and tor, but missing the absolute basics. Privacy isnt a tool, its a habit. If u buy non-kyc Link J88, but then your wallet software automatically sweeps all your utxos together to pay for a coffee... u just doxed your entire net worth to the merchant and chainalysis. U dont need complex tech to stay private. U need a wallet with strict coin control so u never mix your dark stack with your spending stack. Stop relying on automated wallet algorithms. Your wallet software never automatically sweeps or consolidates all your UTXOs together. You as a wallet user, takes action and do that so if that happens, it's your responsibility of don't choose a good wallet with coin control feature, don't turn it on, and don't choose inputs for your transactions properly and carefully. It's not responsibility of any wallet software that never automatically does that for any user. How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum. Living in an electrum bubble is making u blind to how 99% of people actually interact with this network. Saying wallets "never automatically consolidate" is factually wrong. Go download trust wallet, exodus, or ledger live. Send five separate $10 utxos to it. Then try to send a $40 payment. The software will absolutely automatically bundle those inputs together to build the tx. It doesnt ask for permission. The user just types "$40" and hits send. The wallets internal coin selection algorithm does the rest. That automatic input selection is exactly how newbies dox their entire transaction history. U think the average user knows how to freeze a utxo in sparrow? NO. They use shiny mobile wallets that automate the process and ruin their privacy in the background.
Everyone here is screaming about coinjoins and tor, but missing the absolute basics. Privacy isnt a tool, its a habit. If u buy non-kyc Link J88, but then your wallet software automatically sweeps all your utxos together to pay for a coffee... u just doxed your entire net worth to the merchant and chainalysis. U dont need complex tech to stay private. U need a wallet with strict coin control so u never mix your dark stack with your spending stack. Stop relying on automated wallet algorithms. Your wallet software never automatically sweeps or consolidates all your UTXOs together. You as a wallet user, takes action and do that so if that happens, it's your responsibility of don't choose a good wallet with coin control feature, don't turn it on, and don't choose inputs for your transactions properly and carefully. It's not responsibility of any wallet software that never automatically does that for any user. How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum. Living in an electrum bubble is making u blind to how 99% of people actually interact with this network. Saying wallets "never automatically consolidate" is factually wrong. Go download trust wallet, exodus, or ledger live. Send five separate $10 utxos to it. Then try to send a $40 payment. The software will absolutely automatically bundle those inputs together to build the tx. It doesnt ask for permission. The user just types "$40" and hits send. The wallets internal coin selection algorithm does the rest. That automatic input selection is exactly how newbies dox their entire transaction history. U think the average user knows how to freeze a utxo in sparrow? NO. They use shiny mobile wallets that automate the process and ruin their privacy in the background.

Everyone here is screaming about coinjoins and tor, but missing the absolute basics. Privacy isnt a tool, its a habit. If u buy non-kyc Link J88, but then your wallet software automatically sweeps all your utxos together to pay for a coffee... u just doxed your entire net worth to the merchant and chainalysis. U dont need complex tech to stay private. U need a wallet with strict coin control so u never mix your dark stack with your spending stack. Stop relying on automated wallet algorithms. Your wallet software never automatically sweeps or consolidates all your UTXOs together. You as a wallet user, takes action and do that so if that happens, it's your responsibility of don't choose a good wallet with coin control feature, don't turn it on, and don't choose inputs for your transactions properly and carefully. It's not responsibility of any wallet software that never automatically does that for any user. How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum. Living in an electrum bubble is making u blind to how 99% of people actually interact with this network. Saying wallets "never automatically consolidate" is factually wrong. Go download trust wallet, exodus, or ledger live. Send five separate $10 utxos to it. Then try to send a $40 payment. The software will absolutely automatically bundle those inputs together to build the tx. It doesnt ask for permission. The user just types "$40" and hits send. The wallets internal coin selection algorithm does the rest. That automatic input selection is exactly how newbies dox their entire transaction history. U think the average user knows how to freeze a utxo in sparrow? NO. They use shiny mobile wallets that automate the process and ruin their privacy in the background.

Everyone here is screaming about coinjoins and tor, but missing the absolute basics. Privacy isnt a tool, its a habit. If u buy non-kyc Link J88, but then your wallet software automatically sweeps all your utxos together to pay for a coffee... u just doxed your entire net worth to the merchant and chainalysis. U dont need complex tech to stay private. U need a wallet with strict coin control so u never mix your dark stack with your spending stack. Stop relying on automated wallet algorithms. Your wallet software never automatically sweeps or consolidates all your UTXOs together. You as a wallet user, takes action and do that so if that happens, it's your responsibility of don't choose a good wallet with coin control feature, don't turn it on, and don't choose inputs for your transactions properly and carefully. It's not responsibility of any wallet software that never automatically does that for any user. How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum. Living in an electrum bubble is making u blind to how 99% of people actually interact with this network. Saying wallets "never automatically consolidate" is factually wrong. Go download trust wallet, exodus, or ledger live. Send five separate $10 utxos to it. Then try to send a $40 payment. The software will absolutely automatically bundle those inputs together to build the tx. It doesnt ask for permission. The user just types "$40" and hits send. The wallets internal coin selection algorithm does the rest. That automatic input selection is exactly how newbies dox their entire transaction history. U think the average user knows how to freeze a utxo in sparrow? NO. They use shiny mobile wallets that automate the process and ruin their privacy in the background.