The assumption they have is that if a Bitcoin transaction has multiple inputs, all the inputs must all belong to the same entity.
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Bitcoin privacy tool Payjoin receives $100K grant from Maelstrom
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The Maelstrom-funded work by Ben Allen aims to improve Payjoin, a transaction method that increases Bitcoin privacy by breaking the common blockchain analysis heuristic that assumes all transaction inputs are owned by a single entity.
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