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Board Wallet software
Re: Wasabi blacklisting update - open letter / 24 questions discussion thread
by
DireWolfM14
on 28/07/2022, 16:03:05 UTC
Samourai are maybe spying on you, but you can still achieve privacy by running your own server. Wasabi are provably spying on you, and there is nothing you can do about it. I wouldn't use either.

Yeah, the SPV server issue is easily resolved by running your own instance of bitcoin core or a node with an Electrum server.  Samourai can spy on you if you use their servers, but how can we insure they're not spying on you address by address when using Whirlpool?  I may not be as technically sophisticated as many here, but I don't see how we can ensure that's not the case.


Meanwhile, here is nopara73 claiming responsibility for the fact that coin control is in use today, while also saying that you are all too stupid to use it and therefore shouldn't have it: https://teddit.net/r/WasabiWallet/comments/w8r7pw/why_i_wont_be_using_v2_of_wasabi_after_having_it/ihtvm0p/. He also slips in a quick reminder that they are only bastion of hope for bitcoin fungibility, despite actively treating bitcoin as non-fungible. Excuse me while I roll my eyes so hard I have to go lie down.

Thanks for the link.  I can't believe the arrogance of that post, just wow.  "Bitcoin Core and Electrum had coin control before I made informed the world how cool coin control is."  Here's a comment from that post that has me laughing out loud and fuming at the same time:

Quote from: nopara73
The thing is, making Bitcoin fungible is not an easy task and all odds are against us.

@nopara73, get a grip, dude.  You're not making bitcoin fungible any more than you're making the US dollar fungible.  You don't have that kind of clout, so stop making a fool of yourself by saying asinine shit like that.  Bitcoin is fungible with or without you, and you're not helping it's fungibility at all.  Quite the contrary, your shenanigans can only hurt.