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Re: The default Wasabi Wallet coordinator will start censoring "illegal" UTXOs
by
nopara73
on 01/05/2022, 13:59:48 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1)
Sparrow is using Samourai Whirlpool and many bitcoiners who know much more about privacy tell me, don't like mixing with Whirpool.

Yes, because it's a scam. No privacy, just marketing. Whirlpool is not on the same level. Unlike Wasabi or JoinMarket, it isn't trustless. Using them you trust a third party with your privacy.

Samourai Wallet by default collects the xpubs of their users (past, present and future financial transactions) thus they provide zero privacy against themselves (and hackers and governments.) For this they say "use dojo" which is a Bitcoin full node that fixes this network level privacy disaster, however you'll still be mixing with other xpub leakers. If you're the only one who uses a full node, then the links between your inputs and outputs in the mix is trivially deanonymized by exclusion. This is a fundamental privacy leak, which just makes the two wallet not even comparable. However the problems did not end here, I think they can be deanonymized by other means, too, but any discussion comparing the two should.