Hanshan on Nostr: thats basically correct but theres nuance, as always. Because we know the age of ...

thats basically correct
but theres nuance, as always.

Because we know the age of outputswWe don't want a *completely random distribution* we want a distribution that matches the age distribution of *how people actually spend*

But we don't know how people actually spend because everything is obfuscated

What we can do is guess and do statistical analysis on how we *think people spend and compare that to what actually appears on chain

As I recall STN's Monero tracing tool (which doesn't actually trace Monero 🙄) heuristically identifies old outputs as the likely spend because the generally used decoy selection algo is biased towards recent outputs, making old output stick out.