Whirlpool is absolete because WabiSabi doesn't peel your UTXO first like Whirpool does. ALL your coins in a WabiSabi coinjoin are broken down to be made private, even those that don't match other standard amounts.
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We’re turning in circles. I will happily use wasabi if they’ll stop attacking Bitcoin and it’s ethos.
I'm not arguing that you should use Wasabi or its coordinator specifically, I'm arguing the Whirlpool protocol is a less private way to arrange outputs from non private inputs than the WabiSabi protocol. The coordinator of Whirlpool transactions needs to explain why they haven't upgraded yet.
Unless you end up with slightly less than 0.1 BTC. In which case you have a large amount of toxic change that you can't do anything with.
The minimum denominations for WabiSabi coinjoins is 5000 sats, not 0.1 BTC, so traceable change is completely eliminated. Please check the coinjoin transactions from each protocol we are comparing against each other:
WabiSabi: mempool.space/tx/01a1a055719129397fb8344b5a09e6cfe72868c8e1d750e621d8b580c96bf77b
Whirlpool: mempool.space/tx/1825e9f7f0548fb4957d389b20e0e46d1ccc9ee50a75ebd19f7a49cdee761e50
Has that number been updated recently? I remember it being 0.1.
I stopped using Wasabi after the entity running both the coordinator and the wallet partnered with nefarious actors, so my numbers here may not be up to date.
The Zerolink protocol (that Whirlpool uses) had 0.1 denominations only, but that was upgraded to WabiSabi last summer with the release of Wasabi Wallet 2.0