Didn't see a post yet here for the episode with Max, so I'll leave this here,

Hey there, heard the new episode with Max from Wasabi, didn't want to start anything crazy over on Twitter, so I figured I'd mention it here. First of all, amazing episode, always really enjoy hearing him.

Secondly, the most controversial thing involving Wasabi recently is Wasabi using a portion earnings from their services to hire chainanalytics to check for tainted coins entering joins of the main (ZkSnacks) coordinator.

I will mention that recently a wonderful open-source developer (Kukks aka Andrew Camillerri) made it super easy to make your own coordinator through BTCpayserver. In the past, not using the main coordinator meant there was a very low anonymity set (low amount of coins to mix with), but now, coins of all coordinators are all mixed together.

Because of this wonderful work, the fact that the main coordinator is surveiled really isn't as big of a scandal for users as it was seen as at the time, but I would have liked to hear his comments on what lead to the decision. Was it an anticipatory move figuring policy would change pretty soon? Hearing him speak over this episode, it seems like the decision must not have been an easy one. Chainanalytics seems like the last person he wants to hire, and to make his customers hire.

Anyway,

Great work as always!

Also, Pulling for Bedford!