Question @Best_Change:
Is this true? If so, that makes the review system worthless, but it does explain why there are no persistent negative reviews on any of the exchanges you've listed.
If this is indeed true, can you publish this as a warning in bold on the review page? It seems misleading to omit this.

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Second question @Best_Change: Can you clarify the bold part in your comment?
From Janyiah's feedback:
Who is "the exchange" who didn't receive the funds but froze it anyway? You make it sound as if the exchanger doesn't own the deposit address they ask the user to send funds to (but again: they froze it anyway).

Unfortunately, BestChange supports the anti-Bitcoin idea of "taint", and like most (or all) companies that do so, they don't state that on their website.
It was brought up here:

My stance:

BestChange's stance:

BestChange supports the (crazy) idea that 1BTC≠1BTC, which is a huge threat to Bitcoin and it's users.

This, unfortunately, happens more and more: Bitcoin's fungibility is under attack:
See [Blacklist] of unreliable, 'taint proclaiming' Bitcoin services / exchanges for n0nce's naming and shaming. Unfortunately, the list is far from complete. And growing.

It looks like you can add Openchange.cash to the list: SCAM EXCHANGE: Openchange (Openchange.cash):

How do I interpret this? Let's say someone steals 1 Bitcoin, and gambles it at Betnomi. That's not allowed, right? And that makes sense!
But if someone gets 1 Bitcoin from a mixer, he can use it to gamble at Betnomi, even if that 1 Bitcoin was previously stolen by whoever sent it to the mixer? If so, that would make perfect sense to me too!

The thief isn't allowed to use stolen funds, but you can't blame a Bitcoin owner because of whatever a previous owner did.

It happens more often than you think

When did this happen? That system was abandoned more than 2 years before you joined Bitcointalk.

The difference is the time frame: the dollar is quite stable from today to tomorrow, while Bitcoin can easily lose or gain 20%. But I've also seen the dollar (or euro) gain or drop much more than 1% in a day, after some announcement from a central bank.
Now that I think about it, it makes me wonder if Bitcoin is called volatile to distract from the continuous drop in value of fiat money. Fact is: there is no stable currency anymore.

That's not my experience: even after Preview works, Post doesn't.

LoyceV's Wasabi Wallet Review

Clean system
I barely install software on my normal system, so the first thing I did was wipe my spare laptop with a clean Lubuntu 20.04 distribution, and enabled a VPN. Better safe than sorry!

Installation
I tried to install Wasabi-2.0.1.deb binary:
I switched to Wasabi-2.0.1.tar.gz, which worked instantly without installation. Executable "wassabee" has an unexpected name though.

First start
After starting, literally the first thing Wasabi Wallet shows is: "Wasabi is bringing fungibility.". I read the exact opposite recently: Wasabi wallet is blacklisting "tainted" coins. That's a direct attack on fungibility. Please don't promote the idea of "taint":
I'm glad I got that off my chest. Now, back to the wallet

Settings and units
First: there are 2 different "Settings": one "global", and one for each wallet.
Being frugal, I choose Minimize Costs as Coinjoin Strategy. Since I don't like surprises, I choose Customize, and disabled "Automatically start coinjoin". To speed up testing, I lowered the Anonymity score target to 2, and set the Coinjoin time preference in Hours.
Ever since I joined Bitcoin, mBTC has been my preferred unit. It balances counting zeros on both sides. Wasabi lets me choose between BTC and sats. Please add mBTC! I choose sats for now.
I lowered the Dust Threshold to 0.00000000 BTC (I don't want small funds to be hidden). Even though I just selected sats as display unit, this wasn't applied here.
When I leave settings and go to the Wallet, it's still in BTC instead of sats. It looks like this setting is completely ignored, even after restarting the wallet.

Copying addresses
Wasabi Wallet doesn't allow me to select an address. There's a "Copy" button, but that clipboard is different than the Linux default of copying by selecting, and pasting by pressing my middle mouse button. Now I can't paste the address into an xterm without first pasting and selecting it elsewhere. Using my middle mouse button to paste an address into Wasabi doesn't work either. The mouse-select-to-copy is standard behaviour on Linux, which makes me think Wasabi intentionally disabled this. I don't like it.
In Bitcoin Core, double click means select which means I can paste it anywhere by clicking my middle mouse button. That's the fastest way to copy an address.

Addresses
After receiving funds, I can no longer see the address the funds are on. "Details" shows the txid, and I've never seen a Bitcoin wallet that doesn't let me see my own address. Did I overlook something?
When sending funds, there's no "Max" button. All in all I miss basic features in this wallet that I'm so used to in Electrum.
The lack of showing addresses also makes coin control impossible. I like being in charge, including manually choosing inputs for optimal fees and privacy.

After funding the wallet, it shows "Coinjoin is stopped, Press Play to start". My assumption was that Coinjoin happens when I send funds, but it looks like Coinjoin happens when funds are received. Clicking Play shows "Coinjoining might be uneconomical, Receive more funds or press play to bypass". Unfortunately, there's no "info" to click for further details.

CPU-load
Wasabi Wallet is surprisingly hungry for CPU cycles, most of the time it takes 35 to 65% of one core. When using Electrum, I don't even notice the CPU consumption, and even Bitcoin Core is less demanding (after the initial block download). When I minimize Wasabi Wallet, this ends.
On my normal system, I wouldn't like to spend this much computing power on a wallet.

Frozen
I wiped my .walletwasabi directory again, and restarted to switch to testnet. I quickly made 2 deposits, which showed up, and stayed on the screen for more than 15 minutes. The wallet was frozen, but still consuming 200% CPU and it's directory was growing. So it's doing something, but I don't like waiting (after all, it's an SPV wallet). After consuming 34 CPU-minutes, the .walletwasabi directory got smaller again (370 MB), and I killed the wallet to restart it. It worked after this.

After restarting the wallet, I made 3 separate deposits to 3 different addresses. By the time they had 3 confirmations, they still didn't show up on Wasabi Wallet. After (again) restarting the wallet, my (testnet) deposits finally showed up.

QR-codes
The QR-codes are very hard to scan. I tried 2 different phones. Most QR-codes took a few seconds, but some didn't scan at all. I haven't had this problem with any other wallets.

To conclude
I know it's designed to be like this, but I don't like a wallet that "does things" in the background. I like being in control, and I like knowing what's going on. If I'm not signing a transaction, I want the wallet to remain locked and private keys encrypted. Wasabi Wallet gives me the feeling it's "doing things" even when it's only receiving a transaction. Add the "taint", CPU-consumption, deposits not showing up, not adjustable units and necessary restarts, and this is not going to be my favourite wallet. That's okay though: I've tested many wallets, and only a few stick. I love the freedom to choose

This makes me wonder if the users ever thought about the long-term perspective. With exchanges, you often hear the advice to take your coins out because "not your keys, not your coins". Weirdly enough, that generic recommendation isn't applied to "stable" coins!
Who thinks Tether will still exist 10 years from now? Or 50 years? I bet the dollar will still be around, and Bitcoin too. I'm not so sure yet about the euro, but I'm pretty sure the current stable coins won't last 50 years.

Sharing forum PMs is a big no-go, even when it's about bad shit. There's always someone going to complain that it should remain private. I don't see why chat logs would be any different.

See theymos' semi-mysterious algorithy

It's a bug on BPIP: newer Trust lists don't get updated. I guess it's too much work to fix, so it never happened.

Correct. See DefaultTrust changes.

I know none of the people who included (or excluded) me personally.

Exactly 0!

Well, not directly. But with 10+ earned Merit, you can have a vote, and with 250+ earned Merit, you can have a big vote for DT1.
If you use the Trust system correctly, eventually someone will include you and your feedback becomes more meaningful to others.

Actually, there is! You can change the Trust depth in Trust settings. But be aware this has large recursive implications and depth 4 will probably give a timeout on the Trust settings page.

That's unfortunate, because the Trust system can only be decentralized if enough people use it:

A quality poster has more to lose than a spammer. That's why I trust a quality poster more.

Prove it, and theymos can manually blacklist them from voting for DT1. See this example.

Unfortunately, the days of wasting testnet coins are long gone

I keep a small amount for such testing, and indeed always closed the channels and recovered the coins when I was done.

As far as I know, Bitcoin is on it's third testnet reset already. You may be able to use regtest instead of testnet.

There's mocacinno's estimate on the cost of mining testnet.

Why? 0.001 tBTC is enough to create many transactions and wallets. It may not be enough to open a LN-channel though.

As far as I know, testnet difficulty is far too high for that. I've seen a calculation from mocacinno, which concluded that it's quite expensive to mine even just 1 tBTC.

The reason why it's so hard to use testnet the way it was intended:

I saw your post in Stake your Bitcoin address here. If you can't access your address anymore, you should remove it from your profile. Small chance, but someone might send something to your address.

Your 1edgy addy looks like a vanity address. That means you've imported the private key into Blockchain.com at some point. Any chance you still have a backup elsewhere?

Any chance it supports wireless charging?
Any chance the charging cable is the culprit?

Start searching! If your phone is the only way to access your wallet, you should improve your setup.

I've seen so many people with problems accessing their Blockchain.info/.com wallet, it's amazing people still use it. If you use it long enough, it seems like anyone will eventually lose access.

From what I've seen, they won't help.