Decentralized coinjoin?

[iguanaaaaaa]

Hi, I've been watching pull requests opened in this repo since the shutdown of the zkSNACKs coordinator was announced. Several QoL improvements were made and coinjoin fees were removed, along with chain analysis queries. I know this might be premature, but I'm curious, so I decided to ask: are you planning to allow other people to run their own coordinators, and if so, will those work with the vanilla client? Or am I reading too much into it?

[Kruwed]

Coinjoins will continue to be supported by the client, anyone can run their own coordinator since the code is open source.

Some of the improvements to coinjoins that are being finished right now have been in progress for months, but after zkSNACKs' support ends, I would expect developer focus to shift to maintaining the bedrock features of the wallet.

[turbolay]

Hello, we are currently sizing down the codebase in an effort to make maintainability easier for a small team. We are also making the coordinator more lightweight so it would be easier to run a coordinator.

But as @Kruwed mentioned, it always has been possible for anyone to run its own coordinator, and they are perfectly compatible with current client.

[iguanaaaaaa]

I see, thanks for the response!

I was under the impression that the current client would need to be recompiled with a new coordinator URL, so the one downloaded from the official website wouldn't work. Is that incorrect?

[Kruwed]

You can modify the config.json file of your current client to specify another coordinator:

For example, you can connect to the coordinator I am running by adding this line to your config file:

"MainNetCoordinatorUri": "https://btcpay.kruw.io/plugins/wabisabi-coordinator/",

[iguanaaaaaa]

Cool, thank you!