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Board Wallet software
Re: Wasabi wallet data privacy questions
by
arabspaceship123
on 18/07/2023, 23:15:28 UTC
People are against zkSNACKs using blockchain analysis so they're getting a tough time in the Wasabi Wallet thread but is all of it justified?
Yes, it is justified. You can't market yourself as a privacy solution while simultaneously directly funding entities whose only purpose is to tear apart of every shred of privacy they can. Contrary to the lies they tell, Wasabi are anti-privacy, anti-fungibility, pro-surveillance, and pro-censorship.
Wasabi wallet being marketed as a privacy solution while simultaneously funding blockchain analysis is contradicting. I haven't seen data they're doing excessive bad things. Analysing incoming coins for naughty status isn't the biggest crime if it's designed to stop crime. If my wallet's hacked coins were sent to any address on its way to Wasabi for mixing I'd be happy if they succeeded in stopping coinjoins so I'm not getting why that makes people upset. If they're storing data without telling us Wasabi shouldn't be used because they're lying.

Which data's being stored by zkSNACKs in this transaction if I'm using Wasabi wallet. If they're all unused addresses on Electrum wallets can zkSNACKs stored data cause them to be linked?

o_e_l_e_o sends 0.1 btc to arabspaceship123
arabspaceship123 sends 0.1 btc to Wasabi wallet
Wasabi wallet sends mixed 0.1 btc to arabspaceship123
arabspaceship123 sends 0.05 btc to o_e_l_e_o
arabspaceship123 sends 0.05 btc to theymos

My wallet tests were on Win 11 using good security solutions. It isn't the safest but it's the biggest OS.
I would direct you to a previous post I made regarding Windows here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190776.msg52685703#msg52685703. If you are using Windows, you should assume your privacy is zero.
I've read the post. It made me research Windows OS. I've found articles about Microsoft data policy. It's data nightmare. Microsoft aren't open about their data sharing policy.

Thanks for the warnings. I won't give up using Win 11 today it'll take time. When I'm ready I'll create another fun & learning thread to cover Bitcoin Core, Electrum, Electrum Personal Server & Linux Mint. If it works I'll take my Bitcoin node to Linux.