Wallet software addition proposal

[Coinjoiner21]

I think it is a good idea to add Wasabi Wallet to the Child Boards of Wallet software.  I have dedicated my time to contributing to Wasabi this year, and I think there can be a lot of discussion around the wallet.  It has its own topic with 48 pages of discussion, which is evidence that people do use it.

I know there have been plenty of misunderstandings with zkSNACKs, but Wasabi is open-source and it is now maintained by a couple of people who just want the best for Bitcoin's privacy.

I also noticed that the administrator of bitcointalk is a fan of Wasabi:

Congratulations to the Wasabi and JoinMarket developers! JoinMarket pioneered a lot of CoinJoin science (and BTW, belcher wrote an excellent & comprehensive wiki article on privacy), while Wasabi is the first wallet that implements CoinJoin in both a highly-usable and sound way. As both a signer and a donor to the CoinJoin bounty fund, I'm thrilled that these two pieces of software exist!

I kindly request from the administrator and the moderators of this historical place to add Wasabi Wallet as a separate sub-forum so better structured and constructive discussion can take place.

[Charles-Tim]

Is Wasabi often discussed about on this forum? What is the evidence that Wasabi is often discussed about on this forum? With what I think, I barely see discussion which is about Wasabi wallet. If a wallet is not often discussed, should there be a good reason the wallet should have a child board? I still see no any good reason Wasabi should have a child board.

[FinneysTrueVision]

There are probably too many unnecessary child boards already under Wallet software. There are more popular wallets today than Wasabi, so I don’t think it needs its own, unless other popular wallets get one too. Even Trezor doesn’t have a child board and it just gets included under hardware wallets. Similarly, I think there could be a privacy wallet child board where Wasabi can be included along with Ginger, Ashigaru and a few others.

[OmegaStarScream]

I agree with the above. I don't believe that the wallet needs its own board (at least not for now). It's topic might have 48 pages as you mentioned, but it's dating from more than two years ago. Besides, there are plenty of way more popular wallets out there that don't have their own board.

[hd49728]

If it is a very big wallet software, it can be given an own child board, otherwise it can be discuss generally in the forum, in Wallet board.

In addition, it's the latest discussion about Wasabi and similar wallets in Second chance for mixers. You can look latest discussion about that post.

theymos posted something about Tornado Cash and later make some changes for soften forum policy a little bit, like you can see there but mixers basically are still not allowed here.

So I am unsure that Wasabi and similar wallets belong to the whitelist that are allowed for advertisement here, and having own child board is like marketing for them.

[LTU_btc]

There are probably too many unnecessary child boards already under Wallet software. There are more popular wallets today than Wasabi, so I don’t think it needs its own, unless other popular wallets get one too. Even Trezor doesn’t have a child board and it just gets included under hardware wallets. Similarly, I think there could be a privacy wallet child board where Wasabi can be included along with Ginger, Ashigaru and a few others.

I agree. I have nothing against Wasabi, but I looked at their topic and in recent month there was just 3 posts made andall made by OP. I doubt it's enough for whole dedicated child board. In general, I don't think it would be right to have dedicated child boards for every different wallet. It's not that kind of stuff which is getting discussed that much.

[dkbit98]

I think it is a good idea to add Wasabi Wallet to the Child Boards of Wallet software.

No sorry, I don't think child board is needed only for Wasabi wallet, and we already have dedicated topic for that.
I understand you spent time contributing, but Wasabi is far from being popular enough for this change to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I think Wallet software board needs refreshing, but I would remove BitcoinJ, Armory and Mycelium boards, mostly fort lack of real activity.

[Mia Chloe]

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Most wallet child boards are usually less active. If there are not a bulk load of discussions coming because of that wallet, nothing too will change if it has a child board and as such it's going to be barely active too so there's no need for that. Based on normal statistics if you run a check more people are using custodial and exchange wallets.

We barely have those that value decentralization and privacy and that's another reason why you see those child boards barely active.

[DireWolfM14]

You want an entire sub board for the anti-privacy "lies about its privacy" wallet?  It already has it's own thread that's had 955 posts in the 825 days it's existed.  That's an average 1.16 posts per day. 

You want an entire sub board for 1.16 posts per day?  Couldn't possibly have ulterior motives, could you?   

If anything, all but the Electrum and Hardware Wallet subs should just be eliminated.

And, no you don't get a sub board for your wallet of lies.

[Stalker22]

I agree with others, I dont think that wallet needs its own board.  If people want to talk about it, they can keep using the same thread. it has worked fine so far, hasnt it?

[Zaguru12]

We barely have those that value decentralization and privacy and that's another reason why you see those child boards barely active.

I wouldn’t deny this because it’s close to a fact with growing use to exchanges but the reduction of cojoins or similar wallets like Wasabi might be due to many seeking privacy through mixing of the coins directly ( although a bit different from co-join) but with the raise of those mixing platforms you could see the diversion going there. If you look at the early days of this wallets their threads were almost every where.

As for light wallets or SPV wallets many people mostly members of this forum still prefers the electrum wallet for that and the child board been busy actually shows that. So instead of the decentralization issue I also think people prioritize other privacy means that co-joining

[TokenTikas]

but I looked at their topic and in recent month there was just 3 posts made andall made by OP. I doubt it's enough for whole dedicated child board. In general, I don't think it would be right to have dedicated child boards for every different wallet. It's not that kind of stuff which is getting discussed that much.

What I see is that this topic is not really popular and it hardly has any meaningful discussions going on around it. Because of that, I don’t see any reasonable reason for requesting a board for something like this. If a child board is given for something that is not very necessary or important, then naturally other wallets will also start asking for the same, especially those that are even more popular than this one. But in reality, there is hardly any real need for such boards at all.

If something is very popular and there is a lot to discuss about it or it has grown to the point where having a separate board would help people discuss important matters properly in one place then requesting a board can make sense. But for now, I don’t really see anything like that here. So, it’s fair to say that there is hardly any real need for it at the moment.

[lontivero]

I completely agree with the rest here, the Wallets software child board is reserved for the most popular and most discussed wallets.