Wasabi is the best coinjoin impelementation. I personally found vulnerabilities at the protocol level of JoinMarket which de-anonymizes users, and I reported YEARS ago which probably were not even fixed. Joinmarket I would not trust to protect my privacy.
Great timing — privacy is getting crucial with chain analysis. I've been learning about CoinJoins but fees in Nigeria make me think twice. For a beginner with small stack, is Wasabi still practical in 2025 with coordinator fees, or would you recommend Sparrow + Whirlpool first? Thanks for making this tutorial!
Sparrow has no privacy, you should definitely avoid it since it sends your wallet's transaction history to third party servers by default. Whirlpool coinjoins have higher fees and less privacy than WabiSabi coinjoins.
Sparrow is a great desktop wallet and especially for its support for air gapped hardware wallets and its ability to use with multisig. It asks you on setup which node connection to go for and two of the three connection options are privacy respecting. Of course though, one is required to run their own node for privacy with sparrow. For people without a node, wasabi is the only desktop application I’m aware of that uses bloom filters or whatever the modern equivalent is. So wasabi is perhaps the only option for privacy if someone does not have a node. Wasabi also supports coinjoins when sparrow does not. If wasabi supports airgapped QR code hardware wallets and multisig, it could be a total replacement for sparrow. I actually use both. Also, Kruw, much respect for you and your work.
If I have a sponsor, they show up as a clear 30 second ad. No one can pay to get a tutorial done.
I also did the first ever tutorial on Samourai wallet, and did a tutorial on the Ashigaru fork when it became available, and interviewed Keonne days before he went to prison.
In terms of doxxing, I have never heard about that before. I thought their info was known through previous employment already, just not paraded around before shit hit the fan.
I am sponsoring Tabconf this year on behalf of Wasabi, but that is the only paid promotion that the project has received since zkSNACKs shut down in 2024.
Wasabi is the best coinjoin impelementation. I personally found vulnerabilities at the protocol level of JoinMarket which de-anonymizes users, and I reported YEARS ago which probably were not even fixed. Joinmarket I would not trust to protect my privacy.
Great timing — privacy is getting crucial with chain analysis. I've been learning about CoinJoins but fees in Nigeria make me think twice. For a beginner with small stack, is Wasabi still practical in 2025 with coordinator fees, or would you recommend Sparrow + Whirlpool first? Thanks for making this tutorial!
Sparrow has no privacy, you should definitely avoid it since it sends your wallet's transaction history to third party servers by default. Whirlpool coinjoins have higher fees and less privacy than WabiSabi coinjoins.
Sparrow is a great desktop wallet and especially for its support for air gapped hardware wallets and its ability to use with multisig. It asks you on setup which node connection to go for and two of the three connection options are privacy respecting. Of course though, one is required to run their own node for privacy with sparrow. For people without a node, wasabi is the only desktop application I’m aware of that uses bloom filters or whatever the modern equivalent is. So wasabi is perhaps the only option for privacy if someone does not have a node. Wasabi also supports coinjoins when sparrow does not. If wasabi supports airgapped QR code hardware wallets and multisig, it could be a total replacement for sparrow. I actually use both. Also, Kruw, much respect for you and your work.
Is wasabi still paying for promotions? And why did they doxc keonne rodriguez, who's now in prison?
They did not dox anyone
No, I made a tutorial because I find it useful.
If I have a sponsor, they show up as a clear 30 second ad. No one can pay to get a tutorial done.
I also did the first ever tutorial on Samourai wallet, and did a tutorial on the Ashigaru fork when it became available, and interviewed Keonne days before he went to prison.
In terms of doxxing, I have never heard about that before. I thought their info was known through previous employment already, just not paraded around before shit hit the fan.
I am sponsoring Tabconf this year on behalf of Wasabi, but that is the only paid promotion that the project has received since zkSNACKs shut down in 2024.
No one doxxed him Keonne and Bill used their real names at blockchain.info before they even started the Samourai project. What actually happened was nopara73 exposed that the Samourais were using sock puppet accounts: https://nopara73.medium.com/samouraileaks-samouraidevs-sockpuppet-exposed-7ce654b92c0b
I don’t believe any crypto storage method in the world can ever be 100% secure, especially in the age we live in.
This is about bitcoin, not crypto