From what I see, it selects all the transactions after 26th of June, that have at least 50 inputs and 58 outputs. How do you know they're all CoinJoins? And how do you know that this filter contains all Wasabi's CoinJoins? Is it official that they don't make CoinJoins with less than 50 inputs and 58 outputs?
The link to this filter was posted by zkSNACKs CEO Max Hillebrand here: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1541501257386442753 He states that this is a "roughly accurate" filter for both 1.0 and 2.0 CoinJoins. I think that "roughly accurate" means that false positives or false negatives are possible. I haven't checked the source code of Wasabi Wallet 2.0 yet and don't know what the minimum input count is but from their Twitter you can find that they lowered this number from initial 150 to 100: https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1537695385925431296 or even less: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1538025729786466305Postpone, or abandon?
Abandon is a too strong word which implies responsibility for what is said or promised. Also, I don't think they will give up on their plans to flirt with regulatory bodies to maximize desirable profit.
Quote from: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/364
Stephan Livera:
Is this a regulatory capture play? So, as we see with the likes of the chain surveillance firms, they are trying to go out there, market themselves to governments and market themselves to exchange compliance teams saying, You need us to help—because they’ll market it like, Look, see, we’re keeping the crypto streets clean. When I think people who know better understand that a lot of the heuristics and this kind of tainting idea is oversold, as we’ve agreed. So is there an angle there that ZKSnacks is almost trying to get into the regulatory capture game to say, Look, see, we’re a regulatory-compliant CoinJoin, so therefore, Mr. Government or Mr. Regulator or Mr. Central Bank, please do not shut me down—or exchanges, please do not blacklist the coins coming out from me, ZKSnacks coordinator, you know?
Max Hillebrand:
Yeah. That’s certainly a desired outcome.
Is this a regulatory capture play? So, as we see with the likes of the chain surveillance firms, they are trying to go out there, market themselves to governments and market themselves to exchange compliance teams saying, You need us to help—because they’ll market it like, Look, see, we’re keeping the crypto streets clean. When I think people who know better understand that a lot of the heuristics and this kind of tainting idea is oversold, as we’ve agreed. So is there an angle there that ZKSnacks is almost trying to get into the regulatory capture game to say, Look, see, we’re a regulatory-compliant CoinJoin, so therefore, Mr. Government or Mr. Regulator or Mr. Central Bank, please do not shut me down—or exchanges, please do not blacklist the coins coming out from me, ZKSnacks coordinator, you know?
Max Hillebrand:
Yeah. That’s certainly a desired outcome.
