That's not a dependency on coins, but a dependency on the exchange that sells the coins to you.
After all, you're not sending an obfuscated Monero transaction, but a regular one that has a bunch of dummy inputs baked in. Authorities that know the source and destination exchange should not have any trouble following the link from source to destination (and hence find your new BTC coins).
I use a p2p exchange that leaves a light footprint, but it's certainly not infallible. Regardless, if
they want go through all that trouble just to find out that I pay my taxes, at least I didn't make it easy on them.
You can pair Sparrow Wallet with Bitcoin Core directly; however, this type of connection, from my own experience, appears to be very unstable, and often it is very difficult to identify what's wrong. Of course, like in the case of Electrum wallet, you can use one of the public servers or one of the "trusted" ones that were chosen by Sparrow wallet devs, but it is always recommended to spin up your own Electrum server with the easiest option being Electrum Personal server, especially if you're a Windows user. The other options, such as Electrs, require tinkering with software or hardware and considerable disk space.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not in a hurry, but I did get around to downloading it and checking the signature. I do have a couple of nodes under the staircase, both running electrumx, so I can point it there if it gives me trouble. I also have an unpruned QT running on my main PC that I use as a hot wallet most of the time, so I might try it connected directly to that first.
By using Monero you may break the link between past and future transactions, but essentially you are merely swapping your transaction history with other users like in the case of CoinSwap.
That's the point. If I'm converting my coins on a regular basis, in varying amounts, with multiple people I'll get bitcoin with diverse history. Some form exchanges, some from other p2p, some from "tainted" UTXOs. I don't really care what that history is, as long as it's diverse enough that even multiple transactions with a single individual are random enough to appear to be exactly what they are; me obfuscating the origin of my coins for privacy reasons.
At least, those users promoting Wasabi Wallet will know for sure that they are getting paid with clean, carefully filtered coins that will never be blocked by regulated entities. sarcasm
I got your meaning without the tiny hint, but I don't begrudge people for picking up a slot on Wasabi's campaign.
We don't know which blockchain analysis company Wasabi has partnered with and there are several of them. What if the bitcoins are considered free of taint by some institutions and centralized exchanges based on the info they are given by one anal company, but at the same time a different anal company considers some of those coins as dirty and send out different signals to their partners? Unless all blockchain analysis companies cooperate in terms of what is tainted and what isn't, I would expect that they show different results and taint scores.
I'd like to know which provider or method or algorithm any "legitimate" exchange is using to determine what's tainted or not. If they're going to operate in this space shouldn't they at least be transparent with that?
All this operation appears to be decoy tactics, while in background they needed to buy some time while moving from Gibraltar to Seychelles.
Lol, this is some 007 shit. If it wasn't you posting it I would think it was a joke. If this turns out to be true these bitches will be my new heroes.