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Change Avoidance Strategies

privacy.change-avoidance

Wallet spending techniques that minimize change output creation to reduce linkage and future privacy leakage.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Design: Coin Selection (article) Design-level rationale for reducing deterministic change behavior.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Coin Selection (article) Algorithm tradeoffs for privacy, fees, and UTXO control.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Payjoin (article) Collaborative transaction patterns that reduce heuristic certainty.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Change Output Detection

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• None

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