JoinMarket, ZeroLink And CoinJoin Bitcoin Mixing

When they hear the word “CoinJoin,” the first things that pop into many relatively-new Bitcoiners’ heads are probably the ZeroLink implementations Wasabi Wallet and Samourai Wallet. In the last few years, these two projects have taken Bitcoin privacy quasi-mainstream, making it much simpler and more accessible.

If you are new to the space though, you might not be aware of the fact that the project JoinMarket has been providing CoinJoin tools to Bitcoin users since 2015.

Collaborative transactions to disrupt common ownership assumptions were an idea posited by Bitcoin developer Greg Maxwell back in January 2013, and later formalized into the concept of CoinJoin in August of that year.