Re: Wasabi Wallet - Total Privacy For Bitcoin

As Ginger Wallet is effectively a clone built on the Wasabi Wallet source code, the same issue would probably apply to them unless they modified something within the code when they released their wallet. In the event the wallet is no longer accessing the designated URL, if it will be as simple as replacing it with another they should have announced provisions for that possibility (with a set of instructions) with every new release.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on September 10, 2024, 09:16:13 PM

I just checked the source code, yet again. Indeed, there is a BackendUri variable pointing to "https://api.wasabiwallet.io/" by default: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/blob/e8a6e55737b554276948a403aab2fb070b3fe671/WalletWasabi/Helpers/Constants.cs#L12.

This means that if wasabiwallet.io is ever taken down, everybody's client software will need to update, with another backend. And until that new API server is created, distributed and updated in a new version of the client, Wasabi users cannot access their wallets. Why is this designed so centralized and permission-requiring?