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Re: The default Wasabi Wallet coordinator will start censoring "illegal" UTXOs
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o_e_l_e_o
on 18/03/2022, 16:44:42 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
Still, it seems that Wasabi has never been as safe as we all think:
Using a capability that is being disclosed here for the first time, Chainalysis de-mixed the Wasabi transactions and tracked their output to four exchanges.
A little bit of expansion on this that I came across today: US government spooks have cracked ‘anonymous’ Bitcoin wallet Wasabi

Seems like if you have any coins in a Wasabi wallet right now then not only do you need to withdraw them before Wasabi decide to start blacklisting them, you'll also need to re-mix them (and do so thoroughly) using a different mixing method.

I'd be interested if anyone can point to any similar flaws or vulnerabilities in Samourai wallet?



And in another development to this story:

However, zkSNACKs co-founder and CEO Bálint Harmat told Bitcoin Magazine that the decision to prevent some users from leveraging Wasabi for their privacy needs was a proactive one as there is no current legislation obliging them to do so.

Wasabi are censoring inputs because they want to, and not because they are being forced to. They have moved to the opposite end of the spectrum in a single move. No sane person should every use Wasabi again.