I also hope Kruw's opsec is good...but the coordinator is after a cloudfare ip...the kruw.io domain registration...and the coordinator is still making money from the remains of the decomposition.....
As crazy things are Lazarus has ended up using Wabisabi, it's a pity that the Whirpool coordinator is not there, it would have been a curious choice. If I were Lazarus I would have used Wabisabi since it manages identities at the network level, which whirpool does not and I would have needed thousands of whirpool clients to achieve the same anonymity.
It doesn't matter if you do coinjoin if your attacker knows to which ip those Bitcoins go even if it is a Tor ip, in that case they are correlated again and we know that those Bitcoins belong to a single entity.
Lazarus has all the 3 letter agencies behind them, it's not a trivial decision.
https://blog.wasabiwallet.website/explaining-wasabi-wallets-tor-implementation/index.html
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That the wabisabi coordinator is in the clearnet I think was a bad decision, although it has its technical advantages, it is horrendous for the protection of the coordinator operator and his anonymity.
He's appeared on podcasts, with camera on. There is no opsec anymore after this.
WOW...
Vlad's iirc
Well, he's in a lot of trouble...
Perhaps, but idk. No opsec would have been good enough to protect against three letter agencies anyway, and he was of the clear opinion that running FOSS -free as in freedom- is just and protected by the 2nd amendment. Being open about it gives it less the smell of illegality, that the other side will often use to sway jury's opinion.
And we don't know maybe he's "complying" with LE requests , is blocking IPs etc. to be on the safe side.
This whole "but you did not even try to stop this" is what is being leveled against TC frontend runners and Samourai.
