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Board Wallet software
Re: Petition to remove Wasabi from recommendations of bitcoin.org
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 13/09/2023, 08:32:50 UTC
As far as I understand, because of Tor and compact block filters, chain analyzes companies aren't able to trace or spy on Wasabi users, right?
Chain analysis companies can't directly trace the activity of Wasabi users, but the particular firm that is funded by zkSNACKs is capable of directly harming the coinjoin anonymity set.

Then what's the point of paying money to Chain Analysis companies?
According to their blog, that was necessary for their survival:
We are fully aware of the gravity of our actions and had been even before the decision was made. By exploiting the only architectural flaw of Wasabi Wallet’s non-anonymously run coordinator: lack of censorship resistance; we broke one of the largest taboos of Bitcoin: blacklisting, to achieve something greater: survival of the best Bitcoin privacy technology. In doing this, we are giving Bitcoin’s anonymity a chance to thrive. The alternative, discontinuing zkSNACKs would have set back Bitcoin privacy for decades.

I love how discontinuing their coordinator would have set Bitcoin's for decades when Bitcoin is only a decade old.  Tongue

Why is there such a cooperation between Wasabi and CA companies?
I mean, isn't it crystal clear already? But to detect dirty coins! If the full-transparency-and-privacy company won't cooperate with a chain analysis company in secret to ensure no stolen coins are being coinjoined, then how the hell will Bitcoin be fungible?  Roll Eyes

I don't love the idea of Wasabi telling me whether my coins are dirty or not because we don't have one official, the most accurate CA company that operates worldwide, so who is going to tell me whether my coins are dirty or not?
Chain analysis is fundamentally not accurate and evidently not scientific, so your concern is reasonable: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464886.0

Can CA or Whirlwind analyze and sort those differences?
Umm... How's whirlwind relevant here?