Wasabi Wallet 1.0 Is Released

[ABCbits]

The problem is related with Tor network, usually because you got bad circuit. There are 3 things you could do :
1. Make sure your computer clock time is configured correctly. Tor won't work if your computer clock time is configured incorrectly.

You are the man.
True, look like my clock isn't corrected. after fixed it, I got connection and registered coin join at the moment.

my tBtc was mixed. I tried to sending tBtc.

--snip--

Glad to see the problem solved

But if you were to use BTC (not tBTC/testnet bitcoin) and actually care about privacy, don't share your address/tx id unless it's necessary.

[Wind_FURY]

How do these phishing sites go through Google's security checks? Or doesn't Google have security checks?

I believe anything that is indicated as an "Ad" in Google should never be trusted.

https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1263042327016284161

ALERT! A google ad exists for a fake Wasabi Wallet site. It looks exactly like our website, but redirects you to a fake.

DO NOT CLICK ON THIS PAGE!
 
Wasabi never asks for your mnemonics, password or wallet file. If you're asked for any of these then you're about to get robbed!

[dkbit98]

Europol Euopean Cybercrime Center released report about Wasabi wallet.
Interesting read for sure, but things are not looking good for Wasabi, as they say 30% of deposits are coming from dark web market.
Hint: reading this article you will also found out how to better use Wasabi wallet  

Original document:
https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2020/06/Europol-Wasabi-Wallet-Report.pdf

Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200606093436/https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2020/06/Europol-Wasabi-Wallet-Report.pdf

[mocacinno]

Europol Euopean Cybercrime Center released report about Wasabi wallet.
Interesting read for sure, but things are not looking good for Wasabi, as they say 30% of deposits are coming from dark web market.
Hint: reading this article you will also found out how to better use Wasabi wallet  

Original document:
https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2020/06/Europol-Wasabi-Wallet-Report.pdf

Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200606093436/https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2020/06/Europol-Wasabi-Wallet-Report.pdf

I've been a wasabi user for a long time, and this report actually makes me even more inclined to use my wasabi wallet even more frequently...
They basically say it doesn't look good for law enforcement, so if they don't know how to handle these transactions, i feel rather confident my funds are properly anonimised.

That being said, i do fear that the attention of law enforcement towards coinjoined transactions might end up in some kind of law that forces exchanges or payment providers to either block these funds or make us go trough even more hoops in order to spend our funds.

[malevolent]

But the interesting part is they mentioned "Dutch FIOD has started promising technical research into behavior and demixing of Wasabi transactions", it's interesting how they achieve that (assuming it's true), would they look for another user behavior,  vulnerabilities in Tor or even vulnerability of the blind signature itself?

My guess is that a lot of users aren't careful with their post-mixing behaviour (many mistakes can be committed here, often unwittingly).

That being said, i do fear that the attention of law enforcement towards coinjoined transactions might end up in some kind of law that forces exchanges or payment providers to either block these funds or make us go trough even more hoops in order to spend our funds.

It's already often the case without relevant legislation if there aren't enough hops between a deposit or a withdrawal. They can also just ask everyone for source of funds.

[mocacinno]

--snip--

It's already often the case without relevant legislation if there aren't enough hops between a deposit or a withdrawal. They can also just ask everyone for source of funds.

Yeah, i've read similar horror stories aswell. Lucky for me i haven't exchanged crypto<->fiat or fiat<->crypto in a long time. I've also heared horror stories about bitpay aswell, so i now try to stay away from them.

To be honest, most of my funds were exchanged legally in 2014-2016,  from online work i did or from sig campaign earnings... I would have a hard time proving the source of my funds (it has moved wallets soooo many times, forks were claimed, p2pkh => nested segwit => segwit, mixed, coinjoined,...) , so i really dread the day they take my own money hostage.

[Karartma1]

In Europe, under AMLD5, if one has to use whatever exchange to go in and out of fiat then expect to be asked for the infamous source of funds.
If we are talking peanuts there shouldn't be many problems but for large sums expect to be scrutinized like hell.
I believe all our privacy tools are good only into the bitcoin world: if we do real p2p btc txs or if we use the LN, for instance. The moment we link that to the fiat world, unfortunately, all those checks are inevitable.
Exchanges do real-time monitoring nowadays and every tx is flagged: they mixed analytics services and chain analysis tools to understand where your btc have originated in the past. If there's no link between your documentation and their analysis, game over.

tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges.

[Wind_FURY]

But the interesting part is they mentioned "Dutch FIOD has started promising technical research into behavior and demixing of Wasabi transactions", it's interesting how they achieve that (assuming it's true), would they look for another user behavior,  vulnerabilities in Tor or even vulnerability of the blind signature itself?

My guess is that a lot of users aren't careful with their post-mixing behaviour (many mistakes can be committed here, often unwittingly).

Most likely, i've seen users who ignore anonymity color (green, yellow or red) or use all inputs at once.

tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges.

Good point. The only alternative is only buy digital coupon or gift card if you want to buy something from specific store.

BISQ.

Or create good/trusting relationships with trustworthy traders in LocalBitcoins, then trade directly. Because the true potential of Bitcoin might only be attained through peer to peer trade/commerce, and the incapability of a centralized third party to censor you.

[Karartma1]

But the interesting part is they mentioned "Dutch FIOD has started promising technical research into behavior and demixing of Wasabi transactions", it's interesting how they achieve that (assuming it's true), would they look for another user behavior,  vulnerabilities in Tor or even vulnerability of the blind signature itself?

My guess is that a lot of users aren't careful with their post-mixing behaviour (many mistakes can be committed here, often unwittingly).

Most likely, i've seen users who ignore anonymity color (green, yellow or red) or use all inputs at once.

tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges.

Good point. The only alternative is only buy digital coupon or gift card if you want to buy something from specific store.

BISQ.

Or create good/trusting relationships with trustworthy traders in LocalBitcoins, then trade directly. Because the true potential of Bitcoin might only be attained through peer to peer trade/commerce, and the incapability of a centralized third party to censor you.

I don't think you get what I am talking about. What if I want to be able to exchange my bitcoin for fiat and I need to exchange large sums? Would you do that on BISQ? You can't because of the very low volumes they have.
Would you do that on LocalBitcoin? You can't unless you want to have to move around with tons of cash (and I bet you wouldn't find such trades).

My point is, for the sake of convenience, people would like to exchange btc for fiat in a bank because in the end we all need to live.
If you have mixed, coinjoined coins and else, very few (none) exchanges will allow you do cash out.

That's the thing: if we are talking peanuts ok, go to bisq or local bitcoin but if you are talking big money forget about that unless you have a provable source of funds.

Again tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges (large sums).

[Wind_FURY]

But the interesting part is they mentioned "Dutch FIOD has started promising technical research into behavior and demixing of Wasabi transactions", it's interesting how they achieve that (assuming it's true), would they look for another user behavior,  vulnerabilities in Tor or even vulnerability of the blind signature itself?

My guess is that a lot of users aren't careful with their post-mixing behaviour (many mistakes can be committed here, often unwittingly).

Most likely, i've seen users who ignore anonymity color (green, yellow or red) or use all inputs at once.

tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges.

Good point. The only alternative is only buy digital coupon or gift card if you want to buy something from specific store.

BISQ.

Or create good/trusting relationships with trustworthy traders in LocalBitcoins, then trade directly. Because the true potential of Bitcoin might only be attained through peer to peer trade/commerce, and the incapability of a centralized third party to censor you.

I don't think you get what I am talking about. What if I want to be able to exchange my bitcoin for fiat and I need to exchange large sums? Would you do that on BISQ? You can't because of the very low volumes they have.
Would you do that on LocalBitcoin? You can't unless you want to have to move around with tons of cash (and I bet you wouldn't find such trades).

My point is, for the sake of convenience, people would like to exchange btc for fiat in a bank because in the end we all need to live.
If you have mixed, coinjoined coins and else, very few (none) exchanges will allow you do cash out.

That's the thing: if we are talking peanuts ok, go to bisq or local bitcoin but if you are talking big money forget about that unless you have a provable source of funds.

Again tl;dr Privacy tools are fantastic, but don't expect them to be useful when you want to cash out from exchanges (large sums).

More than $100,000 large?

Large sums, attempting to cash out through exchanges, and to your bank, would require a high standard of scrutiny, with or without the use of cryptocurrency privacy tools. Your problem is with the banks, not Bitcoin and privacy tools.

[Wind_FURY]

Don't use your Trezor with your Wasabi Wallet. The hardware wallet developers released a firmware update that locks your coins if used with Wasabi.

[joniboini]

You don't have to update the firmware quickly. It's okay to wait a new update where third party apps can work with the latest firmware, including Wasabi.

[nopara73]

FTR this is the PR that implements compatibility with the new Trezor firmware, so in case someone is interested in the progress: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/pull/3793

[coupable]

It's always recommended to check twice the url link to the official site of wasabi wallet, someone did report today a fake copy of the website in the Begginers board.
Link to the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5258570
Fake link:

Code:

https://wasabi-wallet.io/

Whois Record for WasabiWallet.io : https://whois.domaintools.com/wasabiwallet.io
Whois Record for the fake link: https://whois.domaintools.com/wasabi-wallet.io
DNStwister report of similar domains: DNStwister report: https://dnstwister.report/search?ed=77617361626977616c6c65742e696f

[habitantezero]

Hello i dont set pasword in wallet0 in wasabi when i created. I can set pasword now? i dont found where.

Thanks.

[bob123]

Hello i dont set pasword in wallet0 in wasabi when i created. I can set pasword now? i dont found where.

No you can not.

The password is not used to encrypt your wallet file, but to encrypt your seed (from which all private keys are derived).
Setting a password now would mean that you receive new private keys and therefore new addresses.

What you can do, is to restore a new wallet using the same mnemonic code and adding the password.
You will have a "fresh" wallet with no balance. Then you can send everything from your "old" wallet to your new wallet.

[habitantezero]

Hello i dont set pasword in wallet0 in wasabi when i created. I can set pasword now? i dont found where.

No you can not.

The password is not used to encrypt your wallet file, but to encrypt your seed (from which all private keys are derived).
Setting a password now would mean that you receive new private keys and therefore new addresses.

What you can do, is to restore a new wallet using the same mnemonic code and adding the password.
You will have a "fresh" wallet with no balance. Then you can send everything from your "old" wallet to your new wallet.

Thanks a lot.

how i can delete a old wallet? in wasabi software i dont found... Maybe if i delete files on my computer?

[habitantezero]

Hello i dont set pasword in wallet0 in wasabi when i created. I can set pasword now? i dont found where.

No you can not.

The password is not used to encrypt your wallet file, but to encrypt your seed (from which all private keys are derived).
Setting a password now would mean that you receive new private keys and therefore new addresses.

What you can do, is to restore a new wallet using the same mnemonic code and adding the password.
You will have a "fresh" wallet with no balance. Then you can send everything from your "old" wallet to your new wallet.

Thanks a lot.

how i can delete a old wallet? in wasabi software i dont found... Maybe if i delete files on my computer?

You could delete the wallet files directly, but there's no need to delete it on first place, unless you want to make your Wasabi Wallet looks tidy.

Sorry but in windows 10 wasabi software i dont found the way to delete one wallet. Is important for me because in the wallet0 i dont set the pasword but i learn i dont whrote the seed neither  so is a wallet useless.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

[bob123]

Sorry but in windows 10 wasabi software i dont found the way to delete one wallet. Is important for me because in the wallet0 i dont set the pasword but i learn i dont whrote the seed neither  so is a wallet useless.

Wait, did i understand you correctly that you did not wrote down your mnemonic code ?
How were you able to create your 2nd mnemonic with the password then? Or did you create a new one?

Nevertheless, make sure to have a backup of your mnemonic code for every wallet you want to use.


To delete a wallet in windows, navigate to C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\WalletWasabi.
Then there is a file for each wallet: walletname.json.

[habitantezero]

Sorry but in windows 10 wasabi software i dont found the way to delete one wallet. Is important for me because in the wallet0 i dont set the pasword but i learn i dont whrote the seed neither  so is a wallet useless.

Wait, did i understand you correctly that you did not wrote down your mnemonic code ?
How were you able to create your 2nd mnemonic with the password then? Or did you create a new one?

Nevertheless, make sure to have a backup of your mnemonic code for every wallet you want to use.


To delete a wallet in windows, navigate to C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\WalletWasabi.
Then there is a file for each wallet: walletname.json.

Thanks a lot.