I have huge doubts about Wasabi. In fact, I was considering many times to leave and start a second approach from scratch. When you look closely, there are so many things in Wasabi that are actually quite bad, that could be so much better.

But then I realized, that's the case with any great software project. Bitcoin Core, awesome, but it's horrible. Joinmarket, so cool, but wtf is that. Bisq, great, but seriously it sucks.

Software will never be perfect. And when we abandon projects just because they're not yet perfect, then we would never ship anything of value.

Knowing which parts of the software sucks is awesome, because then we just need to work on fixing those, and we're good!

Privacy tech is hard, it's so fucking hard, it's insanely mindnummingly hard. We need a lot of time, and a lot of courageous contributors to get anywhere close to solving it.

Wasabi, despite it's many flaws, has attracted an insane amount of researchers and developers. Since the beginning, Wasabi has shipped groundbreaking improvements to the status quo, and as the team scales, the rate and quality of improvement is increasing. zkSNACKs now pays 40 full time contributors, and hired about 100 different people for projects in the past. Trezor had 20+ people contributing serious improvements, and Kukks is a one man army with insane results.

I think the Wasabi project really has a shot of finally fixing anonymous transactions of base money. Currently, I see no other project that comes even close. I don't think I can manage to start a complete new project and protocol that's meaningfully better. If someone else builds a solution that's even more beautiful, I will be the first to join the efforts.

Until then, Wasabi enjoys my full attention, and we will fix the money.