So here's the question again: What protection do users get from blacklisting? Wasabi team gains the benefit to avoid shutting down from sanctions (if only there were any), or whatever; what do the users gain?
If only truly untainted outputs enter Wasabi's pool? Protection from government sanctions. As illustrated by Tornado's sanction, will exchanges and other services really accept all those outputs that can be connected to Tornado? I believe they will not take that risk.
It has been explained over and over again that
Wasabi has no government blacklist. This means at the very best, they can make a 'best effort' attempt at preventing users from mixing their coins with criminal's coins
if it was about protecting users.
Although the question remains; even in a
perfect world (in a blacklist advocate's eyes) what happens if I get coins from a Wasabi mix that are
tainted later?
Example:
- Assumption: Wasabi has access to government-accepted / -created list of scammers' addresses.
- Person A scams person B out of 1BTC and mixes that coin on Wasabi immediately.
- Person A gets out 'clean' coins after a few minutes; meanwhile I'm in the same mix and get the scammed coins (not yet tainted).
- It takes person B at least a few hours if not weeks or months to bring the case to the police / to court and get the scammer's coins blacklisted.
- Now a few months have passed, I want to spend my supposed 'clean Wasabi coins' and they are blocked by the government, since they are on a blacklist.
- Profit (?)
