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Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why?
by
JayJuanGee
on 01/07/2022, 07:25:59 UTC
"Wasabi is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet
This is outdated. Wasabi is no longer privacy-focused. Implementing CoinJoin doesn't mean it focuses on privacy preservation for if it did, it wouldn't become pro-censorship, cooperate with chain analysis companies nor blacklist certain inputs from being mixed. The hardcoded coordinator does these things now more.

So I would remove it from "Desktop Wallets" and add it on "Not Recommended or outdated Wallets":
Not recommended or outdated Wallets
These wallets are either not-recommended for some reason or outdated. You should not use them! Please note that here we only list wallets that were previously on the list, or were suggested to be included by others. This does not include ALL wallets that exist and are not recommended. Wallets that are strongly not recommended:
  • Copay, Bitpay, Blockchain.info, BTC.com — untrustworthy, misleading customers, high fees, lacking implementation.
  • Mycelium — iOS app has been abandoned. Mycelium team was involved in various unethical scandals, e.g. raising money from ICOs, partying with the collected money and more.
  • Multibit — This wallet is discontinued: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2293714.0.
  • Coinbase, Freewallet — Custodial wallets. Freewallet has also many scam accusations against it.
  • Ledger HW.1, Ledger Unplugged — Discontinued hardware wallets.
  • Bitfi - John McAffee's "unhackable" hardware wallet, named also as “the world’s first unhackable device”. Besides McAffee's notorious lack of ethics and besides the admitted vulnerabilities of this product, McAffee offered in 2018 a 100.000$ bounty (raised afterwards to 250.000$) to anyone able to hack the hardware wallet. One week later, a 15 years old teen cracked the wallet and launched Doom on it, but he never received a dime from McAffee.
  • Coinomi — Initially open source, then changed again to closed source. Had controversial situations in the past. More information can be found here.
  • Trust Wallet — Mislead users that it was open source (only iOS app was). Later both versions of the wallet became closed source. They have not provided a reasonable explanation for this. More information can be found here, and here.
  • Exodus — high fees (not customizable), security flaws, sync problems.
  • Wasabi — misleading assertions, cooperation with companies that analyze the chain trying to make us treat bitcoin as non-fungible, blacklisting unknown inputs from being mixed arbitrarily.

How do you do  it?  Do you petition theymos to give this thread a new owner?  Or maybe the thread needs to be locked?