Think about this: without privacy, there is no Bitcoin as we know it, and you cannot expect there will always be someone out there risking everything for you to enjoy your privacy. You have to do your part.
Everyone can run a Wasabi coordinator. Currently, you don't even need to have a Bitcoin node to do that. Launch your own coordinator for you, your friends, your family, and members of your close community.
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What is a wasabi coordinator?
A Wasabi coordinator is a software that allow multiple Wasabi clients to coordinate the creation of a collaborative transaction in a private way.
I was looking at the bitcoin.org website then the wasabi wallet website. I have a couple questions.
1.) Bitcoin.org gave this warning: This wallet relies on a centralized service by default. This means a third party must be trusted to not hide or simulate payments. What can you tell me about this and are there steps to ensure that it is fully trustworthy?
2.) Is there a lightning network integration into the Wasabi wallet?
Most lightweight Bitcoin wallets connect to random servers controlled by only-God-knows-whom and send your wallet addresses to them in order to calculate your wallet balance. Those servers can collect your addresses, lie about the amounts that those addresses have, and do all kinds of things. Given that those servers are offered for free to you, even when they have hosting and maintenance costs, it is reasonable to assume that you are the product.
Wasabi, on the other hand, doesn't use that model. Wasabi allows you to select the server that you want to connect to and it doesn't share any information with the selected server. Instead, it requests compact filters which are the same for everybody. Given that Wasabi connects to the selected server using Tor by default and that all clients make the same requests to the server, there is no way a server can identify you and send anything different to you.
In summary, it is exactly the opposite of what Bitcoin.org says. Wasabi is designed to be private while the rest are, in general, not. And that means that Wasabi doesn't send your info to servers as the others do, which reduces the chances of any server lying to you.
Very intriguing. Thank you for explaining.
How about lightning integration?
Wasabi is an on-chain wallet only. No lighting.
I wish there was a nice easy no limits way to take my lightning sats to onchain gracefully.
Everyone can run a coordinator but the value of using one is based on other people using it as well. It’s a service that naturally is going to consolidate to a few large coordinators.
Really weird societal gaslighting thing there where you say "everyone can" do something obviously not everyone can do
