WTF! This coinjoin

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contains a payment to El Salvador's bitcoin address 32ixEdVJWo3kmvJGMTZq5jAQVZZeuwnqzo. It looks more like someone testing the pay-in-coinjoin feature than a real "donation". The curious thing here is that the donor used a standard denomination, something that doesn't make any sense here because the address is already known. I can imagine four reasons for this: 1. Making sure nobody will ever send money to El Salvador using Pay-In-Coinjoin tx again. This is because the coordinators prevent address reuse and then it will be impossible to pay to the same address again. It could be a defense mechanism. 2. Creating a link between El Salvador's bitcoin address and Lazarus addresses. I'm not a chain analysis company and I have no way to know whether or not that tx includes Lazarus funds, but if so, that could be the intention (silly). 3. Inflating the Wasabi calculated anonscore (demonstrating the existence of a bug), but nobody has reported it yet. 4. Donating while playing with Wasabi.