Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 05:06:41 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on January 25, 2024, 09:17:39 AM

Wouldn't it be more likely for all privacy minded users to abandon Wasabi entirely? Even if the current bad reputation isn't enough, that will end the moment it's bought by a blockchain analysis company.

The "privacy minded users" are not their target. Instead their target is the majority who don't really understand how to improve their privacy and are too lazy to do any research so they end up in a honeypot like Wasabi wallet.
That's more than enough for a blockchain analysis company to get ahead in the competition and make a ton of money selling its services to bitcoin businesses who are forced by the authorities to subscribe to such malicious services.

In my opinion the danger Wasabi poses which needs to be emphasized is not to its own users, it is to other privacy oriented projects and also to privacy in general.

Think of this scenario: a user who mixes their coin using anything but Wasabi (like centralized mixers, other CoinJoin implementations, etc.) has their transaction rejected and their account restricted by a centralized service they're using (like a CEX). But users who use Wasabi don't face the same problem since the blockchain analysis company knows their coins origin and has the "link" which they provide authorities.
They start complaining on the internet and start being advised to use the Wasabi (they honeypot) because they didn't have their coins seized when using Wasabi.

Before you know it the number of users of real privacy improving tools fall, their volume falls too making CoinJoin and mixing harder while making banning them a lot easier and less costly for centralized services making those services comply more willingly.

A mixed output can’t be linked to its origin. That’s why the protocol Wasabi was originally based on is called ZeroLink. Chain analysis companies wouldn’t know anything besides what’s already publicly visible on the blockchain. The coordinator is blind to which outputs were funded by which inputs. Tor and block filters also ensure additional privacy from the coordinator which is in contrast to Whirlpool, where by default you’re connecting over your clear IP and revealing your XPUBs. It’s also different than Jambler based mixers, which many in this forum seem so fond of. Jambler, which also blacklists tainted coins, is custodial and knows the direct link between deposits and withdrawals.