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Re: WasabiWallet.io | Open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet for desktop
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 12/04/2023, 07:29:39 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4) ,DaveF (2) ,Pmalek (2)
I'm asking you why you would choose to help Sam hide the stolen money from his victims.
Same principles, same answer (although I appreciate having principles that you stick to seems to be a foreign concept to Wasabi devs). If I ran a coinjoin coordinator, I still would not see myself as a moral, ethical, legal, or any other type of authority to start passing judgement on users and enforcing my own personal biases or opinions on users. Furthermore, I would be completely unable to do so since I wouldn't be paying mass surveillance entities for the information necessary to make such judgements in the first place.

You say you don't want to serve SBF. What about the Canadian truckers? What about Russian citizens? What about whistleblowers? What about journalists? What about opposition political parties, or political dissidents? What about the Tor project? What about bitcoin which isn't fully KYCed? I can provide endless examples. All of these people/entities/things have been targeted by various laws and sanctions in various jurisdictions. Which laws are you going to follow? Where do you draw your completely arbitrary line? How much pressure is required for you to move that completely arbitrary line? I suspect not very much since you willingly started to censor people of your own volition.

And by your logic, then SBF shouldn't be allowed to communicate privately either, since allowing him to do so allows him to continue to hide stolen money. So Tor better start asking for KYC before you are allowed to use it. And we better get a government approved backdoor in to WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Briar, and every other end to end encrypted messaging service. Backdoors in to emails, too. Oh, and definitely ban PGP!

Permissioned privacy is no privacy at all.