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Update send: remove unnecessary `coins` and `anonymity set` sections
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MarnixCroes authored Oct 20, 2024
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![Wasabi Wallet Payment Successful](/PaymentSuccessful.png "Wasabi Wallet Payment Successful")

## Coins

A coin is an unspent transaction output (UTXO): a chunk of bitcoin that can be sent in a future transaction.
Unlike fiat currencies which have fixed denominations, each UTXO contains a variable amount of bitcoin.
You can get coins by first [receiving](/using-wasabi/Receive.md) them from someone else.
When you want to send some bitcoin you simply enter the amount to send and the address after clicking the `Send` button.
Wasabi Wallet does the job of automatically selecting the appropriate combination of coins to include as inputs in the transaction.

## Clusters

Every time you receive a payment, you first must [label the observers](/using-wasabi/Receive.md#the-importance-of-labeling) who know this address is yours.
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If you now send half of this coin to Bob, then the cluster of your change coin is `Alice, Bob`.
The goal is to know the observers who know about your coins and try to reduce their number for each coin.

## Anonymity Set

A typical bitcoin transaction will contain one input and two outputs - one of the outputs is the coin you are sending and the other output is the change coin that goes back to your wallet.
Your change coin can be linked to this one input.
There is a 1 in 1 chance to find this link and no plausible deniability.
Thus, Wasabi denotes this coin's anonymity set as `1`.

In a Wasabi [coinjoin](/using-wasabi/CoinJoin.md), many peers register coins in the input of the transaction, and in the output there are several equal value coins.
For example, the output may contain 20 coins worth exactly 0.3 bitcoin.
This means that when looking at one of these coinjoin outputs, there is a 1 in 20 chance to find the corresponding input: thus an anonymity set of 20.
Therefore, the higher the anonymity set, the more your post-coinjoin coin is delinked from the pre-coinjoin history.

There are three coinjoin strategies to choose from in Wasabi Wallet which affect the target anonymity score for your coins.
These three strategies are `Minimize Cost`, `Maximize Speed`, and `Maximize Privacy`.
Each of these strategies come with different trade-offs.

## Destination Address

When sending bitcoin, you need to know the destination address of the receiver.
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