It's privacy theater all while asking permission and funding chain analysis. Absolute trash.
Discussion
How is a cj funding chain anal?
Wasabi submits input utxos to surveillance firms before CJ rounds, and pays them for this “service”
Wasabi coinjoins fund chain anal. If you use Wasabi's coinjoin implementation with the default coordinator you are not only subjecting your UTXO's history to a dispicable voodoo surveillance company you are also funding them.
I still don't know how anyone who uses or promotes Wasabi justifies this. Good on BTCSessions for dropping them as a sponsor of his shows when this announcement came out.
Are there other coordinators ?
Not that I know of. The problem with different coordinators is then it's a completely different tiny liquidity pool. Different coordinators, different pools.
Samouraï Whirlpool is going to release a « different coordinators but same pool project », it’s going to be interesting to see how it works
Didn't know this was wasabi 👍
Without even speaking of the fees:
- 0,3% coordinator for Wasabi which is roughly 1,33 BTC to mix these 442 coins
- 13 tx0 costing each 0,0175 BTC paid to Whirlpool coordinator, for a total of 0,23 BTC to mix these coins
Mining fees are likely to be higher for the 884 UTXO created in Whirlpool but even considering 20000 sats mining fees/utxo, it's still 3X cheaper to use Whirlpool, and the anonset we obtain is easily calculated, meaning we know much better what we've paid for compared to the strange anon score of Wasabi.
I really struggle to understand the Wasabi bros which are good dudes most of the time, but concerning coinjoins there is no match...
Or one could pay 1 eurocent in Monero.