{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Hanshan wrote","author_name":"Hanshan (npub1lx…6svxa)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1lxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasu6svxa","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"thats basically correct\nbut theres nuance, as always.\n\nBecause 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*\n\nBut we don't know how people actually spend because everything is obfuscated\n\nWhat we can do is guess and do statistical analysis on how we *think people spend and compare that to what actually appears on chain\n\nAs 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."}