Ruckniumjeffro256: rethinking the outputsplitting, whats the difference between having only a single output in your wallet that you keep spending from, and splitting your balance into separate outputs thats arent merged (assuming you churn each output once after the split)?

You chain the change together

The idea is to load the wallet with a bunch of unrelated outputs

So if you swap into xmr, use 2 different swaps and get 2 different unrelated outputs

(ironic)

so having only a single output in your wallet still harms privacy?

and if thats the case, does pocketchange really make it worse?

It does, because combining multiple outputs that were created in the same block is a far stronger heuristic

Theres a good chance that someone else will use your single input as a decoy, and depending on how long/short the chain is, the likelyhood of confirming the conncection is higher/lower respectively

Meaning, there are likely many users transactions that use your input as a decoy. Less of a chance that you will select the other users real spend in your second spend, or that their second spend will select your second spend as a decoy.

basically, the more you respend the same output, the stonger the correlation from a-z and the lower the likelyhood of someone else chancing onto a decoy web that competes or mimics your own.

combining outputs, afaict, is far worse as it pretty much instantly doxxes the true spend as soon as you combine outputs

so this applies both to a single-output wallet and pocketchange

The privacy implications of decoys? Yes

is there a graphic that explains this? i need to see it visually