The major difference between whirlpool and wasabi is that wasabi is not zerolink and whirlpool is 100% entropy, so many of the issues with wasabi's mix composition do not apply to whirlpool.
Wasabi made little effort to stop a user from spending the unmixed change with their mixed outputs. In fact it encouraged this with a "select all" button that spends the entirety of the wallet balance, mixed and unmixed in the same tx, which undoes all the mixing. Unmixed change can also reduce user anonymity sets (toxic recall attack) and de-anonymize users without any user feedback.
Dealing with the different mixed TXO amounts is a nightmare, which is why wasabi purposefully made their coin selection deterministic (predictable), which negates the effects of remixing.
Wasabi also has an address reuse problem. Which comes in various flavors, my favorite of which is the kind where a mixed TXO and unmixed TXO are paid to the same address, which automatically de-anonymizes the user. See YouTube video for explainer.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=alcLdBsoDDg
De-anonymizing users with the above issues does not require "compromised XPUBs", which seems to be the only gripe by The Kliq against Samourai.
Whirlpool, being 100% entropy, does not have the problems discussed above.
There is no unmixed change in WabiSabi coinjoins, while there is traceable change left behind from Whirlpool tx0 transactions.
WabiSabi: mempool.space/tx/01a1a055719129397fb8344b5a09e6cfe72868c8e1d750e621d8b580c96bf77b
Whirlpool: mempool.space/tx/1825e9f7f0548fb4957d389b20e0e46d1ccc9ee50a75ebd19f7a49cdee761e50
If you still use wasabi it means you don’t understand zerolink protocol period!
Samourai stands for freedom and privacy. They have the best team. Just ignore the noise. Route around the rest.
You don't seem to understand. Whirlpool transactions can easily be unmixed to reveal the traceable change. Here's where I tracked the change from the Whirlpool entrants:
bc1qwdunzeuh7csqgj7eemz87udqpnjmzaugaa5gvj has 0.00013365 BTC in change that belongs to bc1qapz2y95uvmcp64z9edsp44x35dqrgeq3rnytud which is the third input in the whirlpool tx. This is completely revealed by the tx0 that created it: b787184c44e482d0ca56562a6f01bd78b35a3471783d03c8db4bb3894e9f6d89
bc1qa58fvu80y6k2ana8f0893uuqqc0zm97nmuzezn has 0.11149586 in change that belongs to bc1q3dyxkm2dcf8jh6rl9z272vduwzutz225v5a8hd which is the fourth input in the whirlpool tx. This is completely revealed by the tx0 that created it: f1b351e3741fbe76ccd6420f5af070a6654de2d5494b05b6b05ede88f227604f
I still use Wasabi and I feel like I have a decent understanding of ZeroLink, mainly because I invented it.
