“CoinJoin makes your Bitcoin anonymous” — The misconception that trips up privacy-minded users
Many Americans who care about privacy hear “CoinJoin” and assume it is, by itself, a silver bullet: run a mix and your incoming and outgoing coins become anonymous. That intuition is seductive but incomplete. CoinJoin is an effective mechanism to break deterministic on-chain links between inputs and outputs, yet how much privacy you actually gain …

