When will the mandatory minimum mixin be increased?

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Currently a minimum mixin of 2 is mandatory. It is my understanding that the mandatory minimum mixin will be increased to 4 at some point. When will that happen?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 19:43

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Block 1406997 doesn't come for 341.5 days (as of this writing, Oct 19th, 2016, at block 1161101). September 25th of 2017 seems a bit...much. Please correct my errors.

(I would have posted as a comment to the answer above, but my rating on stackoverflow is too low. You could help by up-voting me, just for trying to be constructive.)

answered Oct 19 '16 at 19:43

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You are right about the approximate date. More mixin means bigger tx and the main focus for privacy right now is to bring RingCT to hide the amounts & Kovri to hide your IP. – janowitz Oct 19 '16 at 20:18
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Have my vote for trying :) – pl55 Oct 21 '16 at 05:46

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 18:39

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This will happen on version 5, at block height 1406997 on mainnet (it's already happened on testnet).

answered Oct 19 '16 at 18:39

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Wow, all this time I thought it was 4 mixins already. – pl55 Oct 21 '16 at 05:47
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@pl55 4 mixins is not the min but it is the CLI default already – J Dog Nov 03 '16 at 07:18
That's interesting. So one would have to override the default of monero wallet to achieve a mixin=2 or 3? – pl55 Nov 08 '16 at 12:00

When will the mandatory minimum mixin be increased?

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