The blockchain analysis company they are funding was even kept a secret, before they were exposed that it was Coinfirm, and yet Wasabi still claims to be the ultimate privacy solution, when they are clearly working with a pro-censorship service to spy on people's UTXO.
They should've been honest from the beginning. They've lost the trust of their users who didn't know about blockchain analysis companies being hired.
At very least, we know chosen UTXO for CoinJoin process will be sent to blockchain analysis company. But besides that and their legal document[1], we don't know. And as reminder, Windows OS have poor privacy.
UTXOs being sent to blockchain analysis company has caused reputational problems for Wasabi wallet. It won't sustain a healthy market share of mixers if it can't be trusted.
I don't like what I've seen about zkSNACKs but they're saying they
don't collect data which is used to identify you. I know it's about not trusting them but we don't know how much.
If wallet1 has 10 transactions, wallet2 has 10 transactions, wallet3 has 2 transactions are they linked to the same user by zkSNACKs or it's 22 anonymous transactions which zkSNACKs can't link to the same user?
Technically, they shouldn't be. Wasabi uses block filters, and they say that each relevant block is downloaded over Tor from a different node, preventing any one node from learning about which addresses are being queried by the same user. You can of course improve on this by linking Wasabi to your own node. Whether or not Wasabi are gathering data elsewhere I can't comment as I'm not going to read every line of code for a product I'm never going to use, but I wouldn't trust their word on literally anything.
Does zkSNACKs have access to wallet names you've created on Win11?
Do zkSNACKs store any data to link users from received<>sent addresses after mixing?
We don't know and they won't tell us.
If they aren't disclosing it they can't be trusted.
Which info does zkSNACKs share with blockchain companies is it limited to scanning incoming mixes for analysis?
We don't know and they won't tell us.
I'll ask in the
WasabiWallet.io thread where
Kruw is active. Their dev shouldn't hesitate answering.