AI Showdown: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT — Which Explanation is Better?

Following this week’s DeepSeek trend, I decided to ask both of these well-known AI chatbots (well, DeepSeek became famous overnight, I guess) a simple question about Bitcoin’s anonymity technique, CoinJoin. I was a bit surprised by the answers — not because of what they were, but by which one I felt was more on point. Read ahead and tell me if you agree with me or not.

To put this to the test, I gave #DeepSeek and #ChatGPT the same prompt:

“Explain CoinJoin to a 10-year-old.”

🔹 Answer #1

Okay! Imagine you and your friends all have some coins, and you want to put them into a big jar to mix them up. After shaking the jar, everyone takes out the same amount of coins they put in, but now they can’t tell whose coins came from where. It’s like a magic trick that makes it hard for anyone to know whose coins belong to who.

CoinJoin works like that for Bitcoin. It mixes up transactions so no one can see exactly where the money came from, making it harder for anyone to spy on what you’re doing with your money.

🔹 Answer #2

Sure! Imagine you and your friends have some coins, and you want to buy something from a store, but you don’t want everyone to know…