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Re: Wasabi blacklisting update - open letter / 24 questions discussion thread
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o_e_l_e_o
on 30/07/2022, 15:40:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by PowerGlove (1)
For the same reasons that we wouldn't judge bisq on the tweets of one rogue intern, it's best not to demonize Samourai Wallet for that tweet.
True, but Bisq reacted to the tweet in question, removed it, apologized, and revoked the privileges of the person responsible, all within 24 hours. Samourai have a long history of repeatedly tweeting stuff like this, so it is clear that their core team approve of this kind of behavior.

They could easily take the high road. All they need to do whenever they are attacked by Wasabi is remind everyone that Wasabi are anti-privacy and pro-censorship, and no one in their right mind should be using them. Name calling doesn't help them.

How the Wasabi developers aren't seeing this is mind boggling, and leaves me no choice but to agree with this:

As I said previously, as far as I am concerned this viewpoint is actively malicious.
Absolutely. You could maybe argue that blacklisting only in order to ensure their survival would just be hopelessly misguided, but the fact that there is no law forcing them to do it, attacking every other privacy project in existence, trying to frame themselves as the saviors of both fungibility and bitcoin, trying to gaslight everyone in to thinking that censorship is somehow good for them, even hiding the very fact they are blacklisting from their website, and so on, means that this "hopelessly misguided" position cannot be logically defended. What they are doing is actively malicious and an attack on bitcoin.

On another note, it does seem that the community constantly and repeatedly calling out their censorship is having a significant affect on Wasabi's volume: https://www.bitcoinkpis.com/privacy
From 900 BTC a week 2 months ago, has now steadily fallen down to a couple of hundred BTC a week.