Thursday 17 March 2022

US government spooks have cracked 'anonymous' Bitcoin wallet Wasabi

US government spooks have cracked 'anonymous' Bitcoin wallet Wasabi

For years, Bitcoin wallet Wasabi has led its users to believe its crypto mixing service was private and untraceable. Turns out, blockchain analytics unit Chainalysis could de-anonymize Wasabi’s mixer with open source techniques. In fact, revelations from journalist Laura Shin’s new book The Cryptopians, which tracks Ethereum’s early years, showed that Wasabi failed to follow the aptly named protocol ZeroLink.
Read more: https://protos.com/bitcoin-mixing-coinjoin-wasabi-chainalysis-samourai-privacy-wallet/?source=Snapzu

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