What's the status for Wasabi coinjoins? Didn't they do some kind of deal with ChainAnal? I'm out of the loop on this so excuse my ignorance if it's not correct

That was when they ran the coordinator (and the reason why I never used them). My understanding is that now that they've stopped coordinating and you can pick your preferred coordinator (check out @LiquiSabi ) that's not an issue anymore?

Good news 👍

Exactly my thoughts 🤷🏻‍♂️

Chainalysis can now run their own coordinator 🤠🤙

good one… same as the ones they had before? 😬

Thanks @Max 🥳

And we can not choose to use it. Check out @LiquiSabi and take your pick.

How are we suposed to know which coordinators are run by chainalysis?

Reputation, sleuthing, mouth to ear. Just like everything on the internet.

Would be even better is Wasabi wasn't a spyware !

Wasabi's client is engineered to never leak any information to the coordinator it connects to. The coordinator cannot obtain more information about its users than what is publicly available: the blockchain. There are obviously ways that a malicious actor can extract information, but those are usually extremely hard to target, expansive, and easily recognizable. Also, the more liquidity, the best is the protection against any of those attacks (Im thinking sybil attacks for example). In fact, every information about a round is publicly available, this is how LiquiSabi works: It connects to the coordinators and sees all the information about rounds, same as a coordinator or a client. So running a coordinator or listening to the information as LiquiSabi is doing allows to fetch basically the same amount of information.

Wasabi is on a track of transformation to eliminate its dependency on any central entity, such as the backend and the CoinJoin coordinator. The first stage is already complete, and anyone can run a coordinator. In the second stage, we are working to make deploying a backend (an API that provides compact blocks and some other things) easier and cheaper. The idea is to remove this idea of an "official" backend and that users can connect to whatever backend they want. We are almost there.

Nice, sounds good!