Hi there,
I understand that the launch of Wasabi is not the best for your business, but please, let's try to keep things factual.
Before I get into your specific comments, I'd like to note that I greatly appreciate your work on Bitcoin privacy and I cannot imagine how it may feel to rule the market, then one day another wallet comes along with a service that does the same that you do, except in a way that it doesn't take possession over user's money, nor cryptographically able to deanonymize them, and on top of those, it even undercuts your service fees 10 times.
If you would like to, please consider applying for a job at Wasabi, I am positive that we will be able to use your valuable expertise and experience somehow.
The main problem of Wasabiwąllet is that EVERYONE knows the incoming address and EVERYONE knows the receiving addresses.
Everyone may know the addresses, but not the identities, nor the links between the addresses. That is the point of mixing.
Such companies as Chainalysis will not investigate who is who, and analyze transactions, amounts, etc. They will mark the incoming and receiving Wasabiwąllet addresses with a special flag — 'suspect'. The moment the global filter starts and you want to send your coins to the exchange, your transaction will be blocked.
Your transactions are just as easy to identify with a blockchain analysis tool, so your blacklisting argument is null. Furthermore you are not even trying to use equal amounts, so your mixes can be deanonymize by subset-sum analysis, simply by looking at the incoming and outgoing amounts.
Plus we are a legitimate company and if we would notice that any of the CoinJoin outputs get blacklisted, we would be ready to fight for a precedence to make sure it never happens in the future. Privacy rights are no joke.
BestMixer is better because we understand how blockchain analysis works and we know how to protect our customers' anonymity.
Really? I have three years of research all over the internet, over 200 articles and tens of thousands of GitHub commits on privacy projects to put up against that ad hominem argument.
Are there also real-time statistics anywhere about how many BTC BestMixer has mixed so far?
The demonstration of any financial statistics threatens the anonymity of our customers. We will never publish this data.Actually there is, search for "Elliptic Report". It's a great, while terribly worded report by a blockchain analysis company on Bitcoin mixing.
Sorry for not using references in this post, as you noted, the previous commenter's posts has been removed, because he posted a link.
Oh, and one more thing. If anyone is interested search for "Traditional Bitcoin Mixers", I believe I succeeded to put together a great analysis on this type of services.
