Quote from: n0nce on June 18, 2022, 02:02:43 AM

I don't know; but I know that at roughly 1:57:00, a guy jumped in and asked very specific, technical questions. He seems like a proponent of Monero and he managed to make the Wasabi guys pretty uncomfortable.. Cheesy

It was fun listening to such a group call where someone chimes in, challenging the founders' statements and swiftly replies 'no, that was wrong!' when they explain something incorrectly; I really enjoyed listening to the discussion. Much better than other such calls where there's nothing but self-praise and advertising.

I hadn't made it that far through the conversation, so I just went back and started listening at around 1:53 or so. Some other guy was asking "wen IOS integration" as if Apple, or Google, or Microsoft is going to buy Wasabi and integrate it into their operating system(s), and one of the Wasabi devs says "no, the strategy is that we're going to buy Microsoft."...

Buahahahaha! Yeah, delusional of your own grandeur much?

Quote from: n0nce on June 18, 2022, 10:48:22 AM

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on June 18, 2022, 10:30:05 AM

If the average user loses privacy because they can't select specific UTXOs, too bad. If the average user pays additional fees from UTXOs they didn't want to coinjoin being automatically enrolled, too bad. Automatically enrolling everyone's coins in to coinjoins means that institutions will always have a nice pool of liquidity in which to coinjoin, which is exactly what Wasabi want. They don't care if the average user suffers, as has become blatantly clear by them spying on and censoring said users.

Of course, auto-coinjoin also means they can boast about high CoinJoin numbers to investors, even though people don't even use the wallet and let the funds sit in there without user action.

I must say, the poor community support on Twitter and low GitHub download numbers give me the impression their actual real userbase (and thus anonymity set) may be pretty small.

It seems pretty short sighted of them to pursue this business model, in my opinion. If they have a large amount of liquidity in their coinjoins, but only a handful of large institutional clients anonymity is going to be nearly impossible, and even privacy will become harder and harder to achieve.

Quote from: n0nce on June 18, 2022, 10:48:22 AM

For full transparency: icopress contacted me and he kindly offered me to send him a concise list of questions which he'd directly forward to the Wasabi CEO.
I'm partly speculating myself in this thread, but also gave Wasabi the benefit of the doubt in some cases and generally try to be as objective as I can. Therefore I thoroughly read everything you guys are writing and will summarize a list with the 'top questions'..

Kudos to icopress for making the offer, and thank you for compiling the questions.