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Topic: Scammer lead developer resigns from honeypot Wasabi Wallet - page 4. (Read 1375 times)

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How are the people you mentioned are "innocent" people? To me it looks like they arrested a bunch of hackers and scammers, why would that be wrong, and if all the claims are facts and true, then they are indeed honeypot, but what would be a good move is to pay at least 2 reputable experts to audit their code in secret and when their report was ready to publish, they could publish it themselves, however they won't lie to damage their reps, also they won't simply do the audit for free, so there is that.

But if there was no "software" related flaws, and the leakes were server or user related, then you'll have nothing to complain about.
jr. member
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Dread uses POW protection for DDOS. Update Tor and it works.

Wasabi never denies leak. Probably true... they only care about money.

Wasabi is a honeypot and works with BC analysis. BC analysis give evidence to put innocent people in jail. Everyone working with Wasabi is guilty collaborater.
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Can anyone access any of those links using Tor Browser? The estimated waiting time is <3 minutes, but i already wait for over 15 minutes with no change.
I waited for less than a minute to access what is in the links, though they have some very hard captcha challenge

The profile that made the quoted posts in the dread forum (MoneroHead) seems to be a long time critic of Wasabi wallet. This perhaps explains why they went out so hard by calling Nopara73 a scammer. I don't know if he scammed anyone.

But here is part of the post history. Perhaps OP is MoneroHead?


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Can anyone access any of those links using Tor Browser? The estimated waiting time is <3 minutes, but i already wait for over 15 minutes with no change

I can neither access Dread.

But can we trust that leak, especially when it comes from Samourai Wallet who also has some controversy and few questionable behavior on social media?

Very questionable.  I cannot find these documents in samourai's tweet anywhere.  Maybe someone else can. 
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Can anyone access any of those links using Tor Browser? The estimated waiting time is <3 minutes, but i already wait for over 15 minutes with no change.

I can confirm that I waited less than 3 minutes, and that after some strange captcha I was able to see the content. The home page that opens contains exactly what is in the OP. Maybe the problem was only temporary, or you should try changing the Tor Circuit (if you haven't already).
legendary
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Can anyone access any of those links using Tor Browser? The estimated waiting time is <3 minutes, but i already wait for over 15 minutes with no change.

A few months ago it was leaked on Twitter that the Wasabi team were trying to sell shares or even sell the company entirely, and were "open to the idea of merger and acquisition": https://nitter.cz/SamouraiWallet/status/1708068554208117028#m

Does this mean they found some institutional buyer and so some of the devs are selling out and leaving?

But can we trust that leak, especially when it comes from Samourai Wallet who also has some controversy and few questionable behavior on social media?
legendary
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Wasabi have been bought by bigger company with advert budget. But who? Exchange? BC analysis? Law enforcement? What a scam!

I think you mean zksnacks. Wasabi is not the company, it's just the name of the wallet. The full-time wasabi devs work for zksnacks.
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So

Wasabi volume dying....https://i.postimg.cc/wj12bP0t/image.png
Wasabi then want to sell company
3 months later and nopara sells up and quits

Now Wasabi get magic funds from some where to do signature adverts on forum??? Grin Grin Grin


Wasabi have been bought by bigger company with advert budget. But who? Exchange? BC analysis? Law enforcement? What a scam!
sr. member
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Everyone should use Wasabi above all else.

Everyone except:

  • People who do not want to risk their privacy with faulty software.
  • People who would rather not pay blockchain analysis firm to spy their inputs.
  • And people who do not like treating their bitcoin as non-fungible.
legendary
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I wonder what our Wasabi Wallet forum fan and shill Kruw will say about all of this? History tends to repeat itself, so I expect he will point the finger and call other implementations faulty, highlighting the open-source nature of Wasabi.

I don't support or like anything related to Wasabi, but it's important to keep in mind that if a user has a problem on a CEX because their coins come from a mixer or coinjoin implementation, it isn't a fault of the privacy tool they used. It's the CEXs hating on anything privacy-related or privacy-improving.
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A few months ago it was leaked on Twitter that the Wasabi team were trying to sell shares or even sell the company entirely, and were "open to the idea of merger and acquisition": https://nitter.cz/SamouraiWallet/status/1708068554208117028#m

Does this mean they found some institutional buyer and so some of the devs are selling out and leaving?
jr. member
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From Dread.

http://g66ol3eb5ujdckzqqfmjsbpdjufmjd5nsgdipvxmsh7rckzlhywlzlqd.onion/post/461a84a003112589e347

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Nopara73, the lead developer at failed bitcoin wallet Wasabi, has decided to leave the project. In his wake he leaves behind over 132 arrests of users who were scammed into believing that Wasabi provided any kind of transactional privacy whatsoever.

Both Wasabi 1.0 and its later 2.0 incarnation were demonstrably broken.

In early 2022 Wasabi admitted to working with chain analysis companies in order to identify and filter bitcoins entering their system. These are the same chain analysis companies that are providing information and "evidence" to be used for the government prosecution of privacy developers like Roman Sterlingov and Alexey Pertsev. In effect, Wasabi has been operating as a law enforcement honeypot.

See earlier posts from this Dread with regards to Wasabi misdeeds.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wasabi-wallets-cto-leaves-to-focus-on-next-gen-bitcoin-privacy/



http://g66ol3eb5ujdckzqqfmjsbpdjufmjd5nsgdipvxmsh7rckzlhywlzlqd.onion/post/b1f32ddd71f9b14c6245

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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.

UPDATE: As Wasabi Wallet flaws continue to be ignored this list is also kept up-to-date at http://scam7kwuwdjksshy6ocig5k34zuxigvhjbdy2hkvqbqsylt6eey2fmyd.onion/

    Wasabi user account is flagged at BitFinex and this is pointed out by anonymous tweets thus causing Wasabi Lead Dev Nopara73 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 teamed up with a business associate of Wasabi Lead Dev in order to provide a list of faked data in an attempt to make a security disclosure against a competitor.

    Security researcher 6102Bitcoin releases data on Wasabi symmetric address reuse. Symmetric address reuse occurs when a same address is used as both an input and an output in a same mix transaction. This is a huge flaw that degrades the anonymity set. https://twitter.com/6102bitcoin/status/1318583039006511104 After contacting Wasabi Lead Dev in order to disclose findings, he is banned from Wasabi chat rooms https://twitter.com/6102bitcoin/status/1313447816379981827

    After repeated reports on Dread submitted by many different users, Wasabi’s coinjoin implementation is classified as a scam by Hades Onion Directory http://hades3nre5yvwmoy5h4tgitvqu56e5j4euaatvyp62regy3ivwhwjwad.onion/

    KuCoin hackers use Wasabi, mixes unwound https://research.oxt.me/china-and-north-korea

    User ‘DominicG’ in Wasabi Telegram group reports ( https://t.me/WasabiWallet/54236 ) that Voyager exchange ( https://www.investvoyager.com/ ) is telling users not to deposit outputs from Wasabi or to use Wasabi after withdrawal.

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