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The numerous problems with Wasabi Wallet mixing
by /u/MoneroHead • 3 months ago* in /d/privacycoins
Questions keep arising concerning Wasabi Wallet mixing. Wasabi bugs, user arrests, user accounts flagged and so forth are becoming too numerous to keep track of.

I will try to keep this list up-to-date as new elements become available and are documented.

- Wasabi user account is flagged at BitFinex and this is pointed out by anonymous tweets thus causing Wasabi Lead Dev Nopara to dox competitor who he suspects is spreading the (true) facts about Wasabi's poor implementation. https://web.archive.org/web/20200128233910/https://old.reddit.com/r/WasabiWallet/comments/beqj8r/bitfinex_lock_account/ https://twitter.com/sthenc/status/1251655851443515393

- There have been 5 documented cases of coinjoins being flagged by exchanges and brokers. All have concerned Wasabi. Rather than fix recurring issues with their implementation, Wasabi claimed that the problem was due to an anti-coinjoin campaign by KYC actors despite the fact that only Wasabi coinjoins have ever been targeted https://6102bitcoin.com/coinjoin-flagging/ (Update: now 6 documented cases. See below.)

- 6 arrests each from PlusToken and WoToken scams. See OXT Research links below.

- Bitcoin address bc1q3zr88h3czss85xxp4lyyhes2xcgu7cg8vhcnzy is tagged as being BitClub. 700 btc into Wasabi via transaction 9a9cb20635db66de837685d01e7d00de9cc13c9bc80f7bcd1fe4f4173a4c503c. 3 arrests soon followed.

- Wasabi hires known scammer Cedric Dahl as paid shill. Dahl peddles bogus DNM stats and falsely claims to have subjected Wasabi to a battery of tests. https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/dark-markets-and-bitcoin-adoption-with-cedric-dahl

- Wasabi staff member doxes Wasabi corporate account via his own use of Wasabi wallet https://twitter.com/keonne/status/1151437292730560512

- Respected developer confirms that Wasabi ZeroLink is incorrectly implemented https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-December/017542.html

- PlusToken uses Wasabi, mixes unwound https://research.oxt.me/special-situation-report

- China & North Korea entities use Wasabi, mixes unwound https://research.oxt.me/china-and-north-korea

- Nopara73, Wasabi lead developer, "donated" a Wasabi mixed output (almost 0.1 BTC) to a scammer who was stealing funds from Wasabi users in the Wasabi Telegram chat. The "donation" took place in transaction 683aba09e87f02611842c698bad49f48734247358c673b48941f8075416a3d49 and the amount was thereafter sent to an address controlled by Huobi. This can be confirmed in the Wasabi Telegram chat logs.

- Wasabi lead developer publishing misleading usage statistics https://twitter.com/6102bitcoin/status/1263464894323658757

- Wasabi staff member admits providing liquidity to Wasabi via multiple wallets (Wasabi is self-sybilling) https://twitter.com/6102bitcoin/status/1267449330975244290

- Serious red flag about Europol report and Wasabi collaborating with law enforcement https://twitter.com/6102bitcoin/status/1269243083314659328

- Explanation of how Lasarus Group mixes were unwound https://stephanlivera.com/episode/179/

- More about the purported Europol report: closer examination of the PDF file reveals many major differences with other Europol EC3 reports available to the public via their website. As opposed to being a PDF-exported report with selectable text like all the others, the Wasabi report is a document made up of scanned images. In addition, the page template used for the Wasabi report is not used in any other EC3 report available which all use identical page layout and style templates.

- Wasabi Wallet caught using fraudulent data against a competitor http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/bb22f5e261bbeb24e157

- 114 new arrests of individuals associated with the PlusToken scam https://twitter.com/molllliy/status/1288771023437852677

- 3 arrests following use of Wasabi wallet mixing by the #TwitterHack scammers http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/325349fd8c53d0a7320f

- OXT Research identifies vulnerabilities in Wasabi Wallet mixing http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/dadd01b95a8f0586109f/

- 6th instance of user account blocked due to proximity to Wasabi Wallet http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/c6220de5b865e09d4c8c

- Upon Wasabi's refusal to acknowledge reported vulnerabilities, OXT Research publishes report which confirms that a modified Wasabi client can be used to observe the anonymity set without taking part in any actual mixes. Chain analysis companies and law enforcement have probably been doing the same thing for quite some time which would certainly explain the 132 arrests and the 6 blocked/flagged accounts.
https://twitter.com/anwfr/status/1297068327165026304

- Wasabi Wallet linked to demise of Empire Market. Addresses "peeled back".
https://twitter.com/nixops/status/1299013819210096643

- Wasabi Wallet developer "NothingMuch" warns users to not use Wasabi Wallet for DNM puchases. http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/2e822260eb74f8b85496 It should be noted that "NothingMuch" is the same developer who provided a list of fake data in an attempt to make a security disclosure against a competitor.