You can exchange a new temporary npub in the first round of encrypted messages to keep the timing and amount of future messages hidden - #[4]
Coinjoin is passive with Wasabi Wallet, but you need a desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOAbXjzBJg
If all your Bitcoin is KYCed, then it matters even more that you coinjoin to protect your privacy.
I'm not a lawyer, I don't have access to the email address where people are instructed to send their legal concerns, but I imagine that inbox is not empty of government threats.
Is there a some sort of flag you can add to your own messages to mark them as generated by a bot? Would this allow relays or clients to filter these posts easily as a comprehensive setting instead of muting bot accounts individually?
Arguments against the coordinator customer policy are not arguments against the privacy capabilites of the wallet.
Pretend you could choose the red wallet coordinator guys in one click through the Wasabi GUI, and the red guys would coordinate WabiSabi (not whirlpool) coinjoins for you. Would you agree that the Wasabi client is strictly better privacy than the leaky red wallet, and choose the Wasabi client + WabiSabi protocol to coinjoin since you get support your preferred coordinator using either software?
I agree! We should boycott developers who lie to their users about their software in order to pretend it matches the privacy of their competitors. Samourai is not a "full node wallet" and never has been, the developers have no limits to the deception they impose on their users.
That's a good point! The most likely explanation is that since a red colored competitor collects their users' xpubs by default, regulators have no reason to interrupt their spying. They can just use the honeypot for surveilling red wallet users who are under the influence of a false sense of security.
Think about it this way. Say the government wanted to ban self custody, and there were two hardware wallet companies. One hardware wallet sends all the private keys to their central server by default, and the other hardware wallet generates the keys offline and never leaks them. The government has no reason to target the former because it's not an effective self custody wallet, it serves as bait for those who didn't verify the claims of sovereignty by the developers.
Again, there'a no data to share because there's no data collected: Wasabi uses Tor to protect your IP and block filters to protect your xpub.
In a free market, customers are free to choose their businesses and businesses are free to choose their customers. If you don't succeed with the default coordinator, then feel free to use a different one.
It doesn't support switching coordinators through the gui, feel free to submit a PR if you think it's important.
Now that you know about how Wasabi cannot leak any private information thanks to using Tor and block filters by default, how about you issue a correction about your claim that Wasabi sells out your privacy to oligarchs instead of protecting it?
Blacklisting is a coordinator policy, not a wallet policy. If you are going to accuse an open source wallet of selling out your privacy, then the burden of proof is on you to point to the part of the open source code that is leaking private information.
But you can't prove this accusation, because you can't fix what isn't broken.
Coinjoin solutions that plug into Chainalysis and preemptively blacklist UTXOs are working against you. They purport to protect your privacy while selling you out to oligarchs, bureaucrats and a class of people that wants to enslave you.
Wasabi devs should be ashamed of themselves, especially since nobody approached them to start doing that -- they simple lost their nerve and submitted of their own accord, out of fear. If you're afraid, don't offer such platforms in the first place. Or do a better job of protecting your anonymity as a privacy dev.
https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1539618567276093441
Wasabi is open source softtware, it cannot "sell out" their users, and give any information to chain surveillance groups they cannot already see on the blockchain. Wasabi protects the IP addresses of its users with Tor and the Bitcoin addresses of its users with compact block filters, so no xpub is leaked to a trusted third party.
Interesting idea. But the time limit should be customizable, that way you can set a lockout of 100 years to "delete" your account if your nsec gets leaked.
Correct. You aren't required to run Knots through the Wasabi client, you can connect to your remote node as well.
Not by default, there's a 1 click toggle to run Bitcoin Knots.
If you are communicating out of band, then just send the address directly. No BIP needed.
You to run a node in order to use ANY wallet. If you are not validating the chain, you are not using Bitcoin, you are merely trusting someone else to use Bitcoin for you.
Mobile wallets still have to connect to the user's full node running at home, so there's no tradeoffs for Silent Payments.
It's funny how there are no shitcoiners on nostr yet. I wonder if there will ever be shitcoiners here since you can't use nostr without coming to the immediate realization your shitcoin has already been made obsolete by Lightning.
BIP351 is outdated and not as private as Silent Payments- https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8
