<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Hanshan wrote</title><author_name>Hanshan (npub1lx…6svxa)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1lxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasu6svxa</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>thats basically correct&#xA;but theres nuance, as always.&#xA;&#xA;Because we know the age of outputswWe don&#39;t want a *completely random distribution* we want a distribution that matches the age distribution of *how people actually spend*&#xA;&#xA;But we don&#39;t know how people actually spend because everything is obfuscated&#xA;&#xA;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&#xA;&#xA;As I recall STN&#39;s Monero tracing tool (which doesn&#39;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.</html></oembed>