You can rightfully call Wasabi wallet cowardly, but if you were in their position would you choose to go to jail like the Tornado Cash dev while being unable to pay the developers who work on building the future of privacy? As a matter of fact, are spooks ever concerned about going to jail or do they LARP 24/7 on Twitter about having created a wallet for the streets that’s perfect even though it collects the xpubs of users (I’m referring to Samourai here).

You also don’t understand how this works. Bitcoin is a public ledger, chain surveillance doesn’t need anyone to send them addresses because it’s all in the open. What CoinJoins do is to do large public transactions where the inputs are known, while the outputs become a more difficult guess.

What ZK Snacks did was to avoid “North Korea and human traffickers are using Wasabi” accusations by denying service to unwanted participants. They have no expertise in filtering, so they delegated the task to a company which already curates lists of addresses associated with crime.

When you own a blacklisted UTXO and try to join a CJ round, you get an error message on your screen. Wasabi, ZK Snacks & blockchain analysis can’t know who/where you are because they have no access to IP addresses (communications happen over Tor) or xpubs (Wasabi makes you download blocks so you don’t use somebody else’s node).

Blockchain analysis doesn’t get any kind of information that they didn’t already have.

The side effect of this controversial decision is that the volumes increased. Now exchanges can no longer accuse Wasabi CoinJoins of being potentially criminal. They might as well join some rounds too. So if you get into a Wasabi mix, you know that your coins are universally accepted.

I’m sorry that you got poisoned with misinformation and distorted facts. But in the spirit of Bitcoin, I’ll let you take a look at a Wasabi CoinJoin so you understand what it is and what it does: https://mempool.space/tx/13e6b17842c4aeee6f30642abb493f7eea0fcd809df9a35a83a3c364addb1ae3