<div dir="ltr">Yes. You can certainly add additional inputs and outputs -- and as such you can increase privacy and defrag your wallet at the same time.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Wladimir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laanwj@gmail.com" target="_blank">laanwj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Isidor Zeuner<br>
<<a href="mailto:cryptocurrencies@quidecco.de">cryptocurrencies@quidecco.de</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> A possible approach to handle this issue would be to add a randomized<br>
> offset amount to the payment amount. This offset amount can be small<br>
> in comparison to the payment amount.<br>
><br>
> Any thoughts?<br>
<br>
</span>Adding/subtracting a randomized offset amount is one way, but there<br>
have also been more sophisticated ideas to obfuscate the amount, e.g.<br>
by adding multiple change outputs or even distributing over multiple<br>
transactions (potentially coinjoined for further privacy).<br>
<br>
Mike Hearn had some ideas regarding obfuscation of payment amounts,<br>
which still make sense, and he wrote about them here:<br>
<a href="https://medium.com/@octskyward/merge-avoidance-7f95a386692f" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@octskyward/merge-avoidance-7f95a386692f</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Wladimir<br>
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