Wasabi Wallet - Total Privacy For Bitcoin

[Wind_FURY]

What features else is there to be added if not the ability to send Bitcoins through the Lightning Network for cheaper and faster transactions, plus as another layer of privacy as well.

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Any demand for Lightning transactions added will encourage the growth of the Lightning Network. It's a win for Bitcoin.

I agree this would be awesome. It's likely multilayer payment support would come to "Wasabi 3.0" in the form of transferable coinjoin credentials. Basically, this would be non custodial ecash that expires and must be claimed on chain. Ark pairs nicely with this.

Plus the more demand Lightning has for transactions, the fees will probably increase, no? I have made this debate before in the technical subforum, but everyone told me that it will not happen because Lightning was designed to compete to lower routing fees. Although they're right, but capital is limited and Bitcoin is a sort of capital. The Lightning Network liquidity providers are altruistic today, but it will probably mot stay that way forever.

With more users in Lightning, the government will notice. BUT to monitor transactions in Lightning they would need to become liquidity providers themselves, which will be good for the network.

[Kruw]

Wasabi had so many improvements in 2024!

Feb 29 - Wasabi v2.0.6.0
Apr 16 - Wasabi v2.0.7.1
May 13 - Wasabi v2.0.7.2
June 1 - Wasabi v2.0.8.0
June 8 - Wasabi v2.0.8.1
July 10 - Wasabi v2.1.0.0
Sept 19 - Wasabi v2.2.1.0
Oct 23 - Wasabi v2.3.0.0
Dec 6 - Wasabi v2.3.1

https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases

[Wind_FURY]

Wasabi had so many improvements in 2024!

Feb 29 - Wasabi v2.0.6.0
Apr 16 - Wasabi v2.0.7.1
May 13 - Wasabi v2.0.7.2
June 1 - Wasabi v2.0.8.0
June 8 - Wasabi v2.0.8.1
July 10 - Wasabi v2.1.0.0
Sept 19 - Wasabi v2.2.1.0
Oct 23 - Wasabi v2.3.0.0
Dec 6 - Wasabi v2.3.1

https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases

Kudos to you and your team! I'm sure there will be more updates/improvements to come during 2025. - An optional feature to open a Lightning channel to connect to the network to add another layer of untraceability, perhaps?

Build the applications that would encourage state-level actors to participate in networks that they had no intention of participating to make the liquidity those networks improve.

[Kruw]

Kudos to you and your team! I'm sure there will be more updates/improvements to come during 2025. - An optional feature to open a Lightning channel to connect to the network to add another layer of untraceability, perhaps?

Build the applications that would encourage state-level actors to participate in networks that they had no intention of participating to make the liquidity those networks improve.

If you are interested in the subject, you should watch the Wasabi dev's presentation at the bitcoin++ conference about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oc9V59PTDU

[JollyGood]

What is the current status when it comes to Wasabi Wallet and zkSNACKs? If they have given up on creating their own coordinator, how much longer will they continue to update the wallet? If I am not mistaken the money making aspect would have been from the coordinator by taking a percentage of the coinjoins. How does releasing updated wallets actually help zkSNACKs financially as a company?

If you are interested in the subject, you should watch the Wasabi dev's presentation at the bitcoin++ conference about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oc9V59PTDU

[Kruw]

What is the current status when it comes to Wasabi Wallet and zkSNACKs? If they have given up on creating their own coordinator, how much longer will they continue to update the wallet? If I am not mistaken the money making aspect would have been from the coordinator by taking a percentage of the coinjoins. How does releasing updated wallets actually help zkSNACKs financially as a company?

zkSNACKS closed down their company 6 months ago: https://zksnacks.com

[JollyGood]

Who did they hand over the wasabiwallet.io domain, social media accounts and the Github to?

zkSNACKS closed down their company 6 months ago: https://zksnacks.com

[Kruw]

Who did they hand over the wasabiwallet.io domain, social media accounts and the Github to?

lontivero and turbolay are now the project maintainers.

[Kruw]

Wasabi v2.4.0 is now out which includes silent payment sending support: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.4.0

[Kruw]

Bump, Wasabi is an incredibly feature-rich wallet, here is the list of supported BIPs:

BIP 21: URI Scheme
BIP 32: Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
BIP 38: Password-Protected Private Key
BIP 39: Mnemonic Code for Generating Deterministic Keys
BIP 44: Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets
BIP 72: bitcoin: uri extensions for Payment Protocol
BIP 78: A Simple Payjoin Proposal
BIP 84: Derivation scheme for P2WPKH based accounts
BIP 86: Key Derivation for Single Key P2TR Outputs
BIP 125: Opt-In full Replace-by-Fee Signaling
BIP 141: Segregated Witness (Consensus Layer)
BIP 143: Transaction Signature Verification for Version 0 Witness Program
BIP 144: Segregated Witness (Peer Services)
BIP 158: Block filters
BIP 173: Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs
BIP 174: Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction Format
BIP 341: Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules
BIP 352: Silent Payments

https://docs.wasabiwallet.io/using-wasabi/BIPs.html#what-is-supported

[OROBTC]

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It would be nice if Wasabi were to implement a way to import private keys from paper wallets or OpenDimes.  That would encourage more people to use those methods (risky as they are) because they would later be able to easily recover their BTC.  Green Wallet allows this (mobile versions only IIRC), though I have not yet done that.

[Kruw]

It would be nice if Wasabi were to implement a way to import private keys from paper wallets or OpenDimes.  That would encourage more people to use those methods (risky as they are) because they would later be able to easily recover their BTC.  Green Wallet allows this (mobile versions only IIRC), though I have not yet done that.

Paper wallets should never be used, they are strictly obsolete. Collectible items like OpenDime and Casascius aren't really meant to be redeemed.

[JollyGood]

I do not think it would be detrimental if as a function it was added on to one of their future releases. If a time did come when the owner of a collectible item such as Casascius needed access to funds, they might not want to use Wasabi Wallet as a first option but importing coins via private keys could be something worth considering.

Paper wallets should never be used, they are strictly obsolete. Collectible items like OpenDime and Casascius aren't really meant to be redeemed.

[Kruw]

I do not think it would be detrimental if as a function it was added on to one of their future releases. If a time did come when the owner of a collectible item such as Casascius needed access to funds, they might not want to use Wasabi Wallet as a first option but importing coins via private keys could be something worth considering.

Allowing SLIP39 or Aezeed seeds to be imported would make more sense. There is an open issue about expanding the types of wallets that can be imported - https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/issues/11669

[Kruw]

Lots of quality-of-life updates coming in the next version:

- Customize fiat exchange rate provider (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13696)
- Customize mining fee rate provider (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13672)
- Customize default send/receive type (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13673)
- Reset default settings (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13669)
- More precise change avoidance suggestions (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13358)
- More useful spending warnings (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13671)
- Resync button (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13699)
- Reduce delay before autocoinjoin begins (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13702)
- Remove randomly skipping coinjoin rounds (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13657)
- New loading bar (https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13703)

[Kruw]

Wasabi's coinjoin settings are being reorganized, review this PR if you have an idea to improve it - https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13714

[JollyGood]

If I understand correctly, the new version of Wasabi Wallet is supporting silent payments but only when sending funds out of Wasabi Wallet. From what I read it seems at the moment Wasabi Wallet is unable to accept silent payments, is there any update about whether this will change in the near future?

Also, with all these updates in the pipeline how many of these are being implemented by Ginger Wallet as soon as Wasabi Wallet developers make the code available? If they can utilise the code without paying for it they are enjoying the benefits of open source. How do the the Wasabi Wallet developers feel about that?

[Kruw]

If I understand correctly, the new version of Wasabi Wallet is supporting silent payments but only when sending funds out of Wasabi Wallet. From what I read it seems at the moment Wasabi Wallet is unable to accept silent payments, is there any update about whether this will change in the near future?

Receive support for silent payments is planned for the future, here's the PR: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13565

Also, with all these updates in the pipeline how many of these are being implemented by Ginger Wallet as soon as Wasabi Wallet developers make the code available? If they can utilise the code without paying for it they are enjoying the benefits of open source. How do the the Wasabi Wallet developers feel about that?

Wasabi Wallet is MIT licensed, anyone can copy or modify the code as they wish.

[JollyGood]

Receive support for silent payments is planned for the future, here's the PR: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13565

That is going to be an interesting development but it will be a time consuming process too. Some other wallets have already started implementing silent payments therefore it seems to be the next must have option therefore it seems logical Wasabi Wallet want to implement it too.

Wasabi Wallet is MIT licensed, anyone can copy or modify the code as they wish.

I know but since Ginger Wallet was a fork of Wasabi Wallet they might have had a view beyond the generosity of the benefits open source software brings. It seems as though they do not have any ill feelings towards the team behind Ginger Wallet.

[Kruw]

Wasabi v2.5.1 is out! Check the release notes here: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.5.1