Re: WasabiWallet.io | Open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet for desktop
Lol, and what's up with that tweet? What are they celebrating exactly, their dwindling download rates? You're not going "to the moon" like that. Four hours since the announcement of their first transaction, and the retweets and likes aren't mooning either.
I wonder if they hire PR people who don't have much idea about Wasabi Wallet or privacy.
It's also weird user no longer can choose UTXO for coinjoin process.
The automatic CoinJoin feature is a privacy problem by itself because it enables chain surveillance firms to analyze in batches all the UTXOs-candidates for a CoinJoin transaction. Once you sent coins to your Wasabi wallet and enabled this function, you basically agreed that all information about your transactions would be shared with third parties. If it were possible to choose UTXOs manually, as in the case of the old version of Wasabi Wallet, a chain surveillance firm would have to do blockchain analysis each time a new CoinJoin round starts, which is very inconvenient and time-consuming. With automatic CoinJoins, however, all UTXOs are being "filtered" in advance. nopara73 prove me wrong.
Even without blacklist and surveillance on their coordinator, it's still questionable decision. Good software should enable both beginner have easy time (automated UTXO selection) while letting intermediate/advance user have control (manually choose UTXO). If they have concern user choose UTXO poorly, they better show warning and optionally show link to article/research about that subject.