Lol. "Wasabi is permissionless except for our core feature!" You might as well say Coinbase is trustless except for depositing coins.

This has already been addressed:


Also:

I honestly struggle to fathom how you can say you are the "best privacy solution" in bitcoin in one breath, and the double down on doxxing someone the next. Truly staggering hypocrisy.

All Coinbase have to say is that your coins triggered some secret algorithm which made them suspect theft, money laundering, darknet use, gambling (in some jurisdictions), or some other use your government dislikes, and not only does it become legal for them to seize your coins, but it becomes actively encouraged by your government.

An attacker with your details can ruin your life, commit fraud in your name, take out loans and credit in your name, but the government don't give a shit about any of that. That's not a national security threat, just a personal threat, and your government does not care about you. Plus the government can then tell that exchange to hand over all your financial activity which they can definitively link to your real identity. No government in the world would pass up on this kind of freely given mass surveillance.

I would point out that talking about fees in euros or dollars is pointless, given the exchange rate between these currencies and bitcoin fluctuates constantly. It is much more useful to talk about fees in terms of satoshis, or even better, satoshis per virtual byte, or sats/vbyte. This is how many sats in fees is being paid for each virtual byte of space the transaction takes up. This is the number which miners use to prioritize transactions, not the flat fee in any fiat currency.

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I'd also point out that Trezor openly fund and cooperate with blockchain analysis, so their devices are a very poor replacement for Ledger.

Almost every major hardware wallet is already doing such things, implementing KYC requiring exchanges, swaps, credit cards, or whatever, in to their wallet software. This general trend is part of the reason I moved away from hardware wallets altogether, and more recent events from the likes of Trezor and Ledger have only solidified my decision over time.

I say almost, because there is one notable exception which seems to genuine care about privacy and security - Passport. Here is one of the Passport devs discussing implementing new features in Bisq: https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/discussions/6726.

And by then it is too late. I still can't get over how many people were absolutely astounded that the likes of Celsius and Voyager were gambling their money with no safety nets or collateral, despite their Terms of Service saying that this is exactly what they would do and it being pointed out multiple times on every online community. People simply didn't care until it was too late, and now they've lost everything. Just like people will use Ledger Recover or Bitkey's cloud and social recovery, and won't care until they lose everything.

Yes, provided you have your Sparrow seed phrase.

Sparrow Whirlpool wallet uses the following derivation paths:

Deposit - m/84'/0'/0'
Premix - m/84'/0'/2147483645'
Postmix - m/84'/0'/2147483646'
Badbank - m/84'/0'/2147483644'

Simply import the seed phrase in to Electrum, tick the BIP39 option, choose the native segwit script type, and paste in the relevant derivation path to recover each individual account in to Electrum.

Seed phrases contain a checksum. If you start manually swapping words, chances are you will invalidate the checksum and so your wallet software will reject your new seed phrase.

But at a more basic level, you should never manually pick/swap/arrange words in your seed phrase. Humans are an incredibly poor source of entropy, and whatever you end up with will be less secure than you think or than you want.

This is wrong. It has nothing to do with Sparrow detecting wallets.

Here is the code in Sparrow which applies this warning: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/blob/3242f00812f08a72733f0a76aaaf5bd0cca68c12/src/main/java/com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/wallet/SendController.java#L1775-L1776
Sparrow is analyzing the transaction itself and saying that it will appear as a possible self transfer to other blockchain analysis firms.

You either have the wrong type of wallet (it must be native segwit at the standard derivation path (m/84'/0'/0')), or your UTXO is too small (it will need to be around 0.00106 BTC minimum in order to create a 0.001 BTC output and pay both the pool fees and transaction fees).

All these do is rebroadcast your transaction. They are absolutely useless. They achieve literally nothing if your transaction is still in the mempool, and if it isn't in the mempool might make things worse by rebroadcasting your transaction after it has dropped, preventing you from making a new transaction with a higher fee.

No need to apologize! Everyone starts somewhere.

The fee you see in Ledger Live is the fee Kraken paid to miners for the transaction which your withdrawal was part of. However, there were also 20+ other withdrawals part of the same transaction. So Kraken took 0.0002 BTC from you, 0.0002 BTC from everyone else, paid 0.00038385 BTC in transaction fees, and then pocketed the rest as profits for themselves.

No, it would not have worked. The Lightning Network is what is known as a second layer, and is built on top of bitcoin. To receive bitcoin over lightning, you must first have regular bitcoin (which you now have in your Ledger), a lightning compatible wallet (which Ledger Live is not), and use those regular bitcoin to open a Lightning channel. This is something you can look in to for the future if you want, but you've done nothing wrong so far.

The reason you paid such a high fee is because all centralized exchanges like Kraken charge high fees.

You cannot blame a bear market for this (never mind that bitcoin is over 60% higher than it was 6 months ago).

Centralized exchanges, lending platforms, and what not, should be holding customers' deposits in cold storage. If they actually did this 100% of the time, then it doesn't matter if bitcoin is worth $1 or $1 million, because 1 BTC = 1 BTC and the platform will always have the exact amount needed to cover all their customers' deposits. It is when these platforms start wildly gambling customers' money that they run in to problems and end up insolvent.

I'm reading Bitkey's blog post about this here (https://bitkey.build/coinbase-and-cash-app/), and I can't get over just how terrible this is for your privacy.

You link your Bitkey account to Coinbase and interact with Coinbase via Bitkey. Obviously you need to KYC at Coinbase so they already have all your personal details, and now you are handing them all your wallet addresses on a silver platter. This is the same Coinbase which actively run their own blockchain analysis subsidiary. The same Coinbase which freely hand customer data over the US and other governments. The same Coinbase which admitted selling user data to third parties for their own profits.

When did we reach the point where a product completely and utterly trashing your privacy was irrelevant to the majority of users? And when did we reach the point where people are actually willing to pay to have their privacy trashed, such as with this or with Wasabi?

I've been trying not to mention it, but since you keep repeating the same lie over and over - the real name of one of the Samourai devs is literally in the screenshots on that page you keep sharing.

Your disregard for other people's privacy is astonishing.

Endless whataboutism.

I don't care if someone's a criminal - they shouldn't be censored.
I don't care if someone sockpuppets - they shouldn't be doxxed.
I don't care about your semantics about WabiSabi and zkSNACKs - they are owned and operated by the same people, people who actively fund blockchain analysis.
I don't really care about Samourai either - I am in no way affiliated with them. Show me evidence (as I've asked for many times) of ongoing address reuse and I'll call Samourai out for it too. But unless you can, I'll continue to recommend them and JoinMarket over your mass surveillance, permissioned, pro-censorship, anti-fungibility, scam.

We will never agree on anything here, because people here generally believe in privacy, whereas Wasabi and their team believe in anything for the sake of profit.

If you set listen=0 then your node simply rejects incoming connections. It will still make outgoing connections, because otherwise how would it function as a node at all? Each peer you are connected to will be able to see your IP, regardless of what setting you use for listen.

If privacy is your goal, then the only solution is running via Tor (or maybe a VPN, depending on your particular needs).

It is when you link those accounts to a real identity. This is the definition of doxxing.

I don't care if someone makes 100 social media accounts. Doxxing is never acceptable. The end.

The Wasabi team lie constantly.

Here's a post I made a year ago highlighting some of the lies on their website: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286821.msg60337199#msg60337199. Nothing has changed in the last year.

Here's a post where I link to the devs lying on Twitter about the issue of address reuse: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419000.msg61220171#msg61220171

The Wasabi team have no problem lying about their product in order to make themselves profits.

It's getting pretty tiresome having to repeat everything I say to you three times before you actually bother to read it. Once again, with emphasis this time:


Define it however you like to help you sleep at night. As noted in the tweet I linked: "Doxxing your competition is evil. Gaslighting everyone about it is next level."

Except the third parties you pay to spy on your users.

Nice strawman. Literally no one has said using coinjoin makes you a supporter of mass surveillance. It is Wasabi actively funding blockchain analysis which makes you a supporter of mass surveillance.

What's your set up? Bitcoin Core, EPS, and Sparrow all on the same device? And it is Sparrow giving you the error when trying to connect to your EPS?

Is your Tor proxy running? Any errors?

You could also bypass EPS entirely and just connect Sparrow directly to Core if you wanted.

Lol. Consider me triggered. At least everyone knows that Coinbase are a centralized third party, unlike Block lying about being "self custody" or Wasabi lying about being a "privacy" wallet.

Yo dawg, I heard you like third parties...

I'll just leave this here:

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Coinbase have already handed over plenty of customer information to various governments and authorities, which will definitely include all customer's withdrawal addresses. The difference now is as you point out - they can very easily get Block to hand over your cloud back ups and seize your coins directly out of your hardware wallet, just like they can do to Ledger Recover.

You directly fund blockchain analysis.

Still pushing the meaningless soundbites? Lol.

Except you won't reveal which blockchain analysis companies you partnered with (although we now know it is Coinfirm - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286821.msg62209702#msg62209702), you won't reveal what criteria you use to blacklist transactions, and you won't tell users you are censoring why they are being censored. Super transparent!

Difficult to fight against mass surveillance when you are actively funding it.