Mining fees prevent sybil attacks, coordinator fees do not.
Samourai's implementation subsidizes sybil attackers by having the attacker's mining fees paid for by the atrack victims, allowing the attacker to participate in deanonymization for completely free.
Kruw
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2023-03-03 03:50:19
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npub1pww7030g95nv9ptfpgfu69jpfxj6pm33xxueztsupwekce45wx4sm6en60Published at
2023-03-03 03:50:19Event JSON
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