The largest multiparty Bitcoin transaction ever has just been confirmed! According to @Kruw, "with 430 inputs, this CoinJoin transaction is the biggest on the entire blockchain." 🚀

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This was only possible thanks to extensive work on improving communication reliability and reducing resource consumption, enabling the coordination of such a massive transaction.

We're releasing #Wasabi v2.3.0 soon. New clients won't join coinjoin rounds created by coordinators on older versions. If you're running a coordinator, make sure to upgrade. #privacy #coinjoin

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We've completely redesign our network isolation code. When Wasabi Wallet development began, .NET lacked native support for routing HTTP traffic through Tor, despite having an excellent HttpClient. There was no built-in SOCKS proxy support, so Wasabi's creator implemented the SOCKS protocol to interact with Tor's SOCKS proxy and developed a custom HTTP/1.1 implementation from scratch. This allowed us to maintain network-level privacy by isolating identities behind different types of requests. However, as time passed, our custom HTTP implementation started showing its limitations. It lacked support for redirects, so we had to build that feature in. When response compression became necessary, we had to add support for a couple of compression algorithms. Additionally, our coordinator announcer uses the Nostr protocol, which is based on WebSocket, meaning we would have had to implement the WebSocket protocol ourselves, too. It became clear that we needed better building blocks. Continuing to implement low-level network protocols ourselves wasn't sustainable. For example, making a request to an HTTP/2 server would have required extensive work. The good news is that with .NET 6, proxying HTTP traffic through a SOCKS proxy is now natively supported. This means we can replace all of our custom code with a higher-quality, more performant, efficient, and less memory-hungry HttpClient. This significantly reduces the complexity and volume of our code, improving both maintenance and performance. #wasabiwallet #privacy #coinjoin #bitcoin

Reporting a vulnerability to a government agency is very dangerous, and as a guiding principle, you should never do it. In the best-case scenario, if you don't end up with serious legal trouble, they will deny everything, cover it up, and never respond any request from you anymore. See:

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

We discovered a serious vulnerability in the Known Crewmember (KCM) and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS) programs used by the Transportation S...

For freedom tech survival is a feature.

Javier Milei's speech at the United Nations was refreshing to me.

Code non-stop for a week, push an epic PR, only to discover a bug Microsoft knows about but won't fix! Now what?

#WasabiWallet coordination service will be free. This is a fantastic improvement because the protocol is now safer and cheaper for everyone. No more "trust me, I am a reputable coordinator", no more "plebs don’t pay" (whatever that means), no more "remix don’t pay", no more "friends don’t pay/one hops don't pay"—none of that nonsense! Now it’s simple: you don’t pay, period! This closes all doors for malicious coordinators to try to trick the client into paying more than what they would want.

Renting more powerful servers is the best way to pay the interest on your technical debt to your hosting provider.

Do you want to win 0.1 btc? Now, it's easier than ever. The only thing you have to do is to accept this guy's bet. Btw, he will accept to rise his bet up to 100btc, that's a great opportunity to become rich. Link: https://x.com/ob_hodl/status/1835679543174296012

Do you want to help #WasabiWallet to survive? Clone the repo now! `$ git clone https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi.git`

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Meanwhile in #WasabiWallet backend: ✅ Pruned nodes support: Storage needs drop from 600 GB to just a few GB! ✅ CPU & RAM usage massively reduced (RAM: 13 GB → 3 GB) Lower system requirements mean Wasabi’s future is looking brighter than ever—cutting costs and boosting decentralization. Soon, there will be many backends run by the community! I can't wait to see it.

It seems @Kruw really likes anonymous payments via CoinJoin. Yes, the payee can't track you back, and there’s no change involved, which is great. Although it’s a bit slower since you have to participate in a CoinJoin, it allows you to make multiple payments in the same transaction. This results in not only more private but also cheaper payments.