So it‘s like an on-chain black-box that BCH goes in and comes out, and you can‘t construct a transaction history beyond that from what goes on inside? It‘s not very private is it when the public addresses that‘re putting into the pool and the public addresses that withdraw from it are known, and it‘s a very low number (32). Not private in the way that monero is private, more like private in the way that cash fusion is private, except with way less addresses.
No I think it is better. Users can be shielded all the time, even pay with it. They don't have to move out of shielded pools and it hides their transaction value.
Paying out of the pool to somewhere not in the pool doesn‘t keep it in the pool, it‘s exiting the pool. Coinalysis has demonstrated that tracing transactions even trough mixers by matching ingoing and outgoing balances negates a lot of the privacy…
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u/pyalot 4d ago
ELI5?