Re: Wasabi blacklisting update - open letter / 24 questions discussion thread
⭐ Merited by PowerGlove (1)
How does anyone involved in cryptocurrency to the level of developing a "privacy wallet" not know the implications of using this particular app? I thought everybody knew that TikTok was CCP spyware.
At least someone on their team must have known and informed them. Which means the only conclusion you can reach is "They don't care". They don't care that they are encouraging their users to download spyware on their devices and potentially link every bitcoin wallet and address on their device with their real identity. What have you got to hide, right!? 
It makes me think they are in the "don't care" phase and are just trying to shill their wallet in any way they can, without any real concern for their clients' privacy.
I reached this conclusion when they tried to defend asking a blockchain analysis company to spy on their users as somehow good for privacy. This just cements that conclusion.Even propagating and legitimizing the idea of this (called 'taint') is extremely anti-Bitcoin, which they even claimed themselves in the past.
Which they themselves still claim:This leaves us with fungibility as the primary property to focus. The most important thing one can choose to work on is Bitcoin’s fungibility.
This makes Wasabi Wallet 2.0, the missing piece of Bitcoin: it solves its fungibility, as far as English speaker, hot desktop wallet users are concerned.
I cannot fathom how someone can write articles claiming they have "solved fungibility" while simultaneously enforcing arbitrary blacklists. Those two positions are mutually exclusive. That is not up for debate; that is a simple fact. You cannot state you have solved the issue of some bitcoin being discriminated against while you are actively discriminating against some bitcoin.