Topic: Wasabi topic hijacked by crooked Kruw - page 3. (Read 1044 times)

He is clearly another thing. I don't know what's the problem with him, to be frank. From the day he created his account, he's "defending" his buddies from everyone's reasonable concerns. And when ChipMixer and a few other mixers were confiscated by the authorities, he held the campaign participants accountable for all the users who lost their coins. This holds as much water as accusing a TV channel for showing an advertisement of a company that had trouble with law enforcement.

He's not dumb, though. He has studied the things he's claiming. WabiSabi, as an example, or his (sometimes) reasonable accusations on Samourai wallet. But, he's evasive, resorts to whataboutism and twists the facts like a lot. He's also dishonest, and did I mention he's evasive?

I don't believe money is his motive. His coordinator charges no fees. He's just a scumbag whose ultimate goal is to make Wasabi appear to be the best privacy solution that everyone should use. And those who don't should be burned at the stake.

Maybe he lost a bet, I really don't know what's all this fuss of his.

Let's not dig our own holes here, please. Mixing, according to theymos' jurisdiction, includes forfeiting custody. If we start banning Wasabi coordinators, then every single privacy solution can be banned respectively.

The thing is that he seems to repeatedly "cross some borders" in the name of advertising his service.
And this makes it even more important to get him... somehow less visible, and when he is visible, his visibility should go together with a warning about what he is.


You should have been reading the very next post after mine. I was talking about Jambler.


Good point. The vast majority of the internet would see bitcointalk without having an account. And this means they see no feedback information.

You can call him out to become a liar too LOL

You must call him out for the bullshit he says more often, otherwise you will never become a scammer who needs to return the money he stole to his victims.

I don't think a negative rating is ok for what he does. I left him a neutral rating a long time ago, but sadly deleted it by mistake. I was trying to click on the "Reference" button and clicked on "delete feedback" instead. I had to repost it, which is the only reason it's at the top of his trust ratings. I wish the forum had a "are you sure?" warning when you are deleting trust feedback.

Besides, I don't think he would have left even if all those neutral feedback were negative.

Me neither. No one is losing money using Wasabi or his coordinator. I still would never touch anything connected to his name.

I don't think so, his trust profile is significant enough. The only thing that would really piss him off is a newbie warning flag against him, but as much as we don't like him, I don't think that would be a proper use of the flag.

No scam accusation against me, I guess I don't rate in his book.

But, seriously to all does it matter at this point?
I think a lot of us are at fault by just leaving him neutral ratings. Perhaps a bunch of red trust and he will leave.

Shrug, not really that important since I don't think that many people are actually using wasabi anymore.

-Dave

Jam is an interface for using JoinMarket and it is not banned. There is no rule against non-custodial coinjoin software. Maybe you meant Jambler, which was banned because it effectively functioned as a custodial mixing service. WabiSabi coordinators fall into the category of still being allowed and I have already seen several threads for alternative coordinators like gingerwallet.io and wasabicoordinator.io.

I think that member nopara has account in bitcointalk forum but he left Wasabi team a while ago.

I have nothing against him advertising his shit, but he crossed some borders a long time ago.

But none of them (except him) created Wasabi ANN topic and pretended to be one of the team members.
Last time I checked Kruw had only a few unimportant contributions to official Wasabi github, and I am almost sure that he pushed some people away from ever using Wasabi wallet.

It would be like I created a topic about Bitcoin core, but I always talk about asic miner that I am selling and promoting, and accusing everyone else who sells miners as scammers.

Like I said before, I think he left Wasabi, but maybe he can notify other Wasabi team members.

Maybe.
He also made false claims that he can magically make Bitcoin anonymous.

A government spook, perhaps?  I'm sure there are plenty of them on this forum, though I don't know what kind of disinformation shit they're pulling, if any.  But even if Kruw isn't affiliated with any government, the fact that you started this thread and pointed out the nonsensical crap he's engaged in posting will ruin his reputation to the point where he'll have to use an alt account (if he's not already doing that).

And tagging everyone who was involved with mixer campaigns?  That's extreme.  People rent out their signature space and don't necessarily endorse what gets advertised there.  Plus there wasn't a problem with mixers for the longest time, so it's not as if sig campaigners were engaged in anything unlawful.  The bad ones got shut down after their misdeeds were revealed, so this is just a farce.

Send a PM to nopara73, he was last active a week ago, I don't think there is anyone on wasabi team who should care more about this, but if he doesn't I don't think there is anything to be done about the topic itself.

As for the whole what kind of service it is drama I'm not going to touch it, every discussion on this ends really badly.

To be fair, we don't know whether or not he is a Wasabi representative or contributor in some way, unless Wasabi confirmed him not to be. I think he said at one point that he is a contributor (whatever that means). It's true that he is only promoting his own service, which in his own eyes is the rightful successor of the blockchain analysis-supporting zkSNACKs.

He is a manipulative, vindictive, and malicious scumbag who put himself up on a pedestal and who reacts negatively to anyone who questions his bullshit.

Careful now. You are close to joining BlackHatCoiner and myself as the forum's biggest scammers who stole money with "their" mixers. Considering that you also used to advertise mixing campaigns, it's about time you join our scammers club. This thread of yours is a big reason for that. Not only that, but by posting negatively about him, you are also an enemy of open-source software and privacy solutions.

Why not talk to the manager who might have contact with someone from Wassabi? I don't remember who ran the signature campaign for them. Probably it was icopress or yahoo. If they have contact with the person who has provided them the fund, you may want to ask them if Kruw is their staff or not. If Kruw is their staff and still promoting his own business, and if Wasabi does not have a problem with it, what else we could say about it? Speaking about personality, he is one of the worst trolls like BSV and Jvname.

It's okay to mention the name:

I wanted ask clarification on this in the "banned" topic, but after reading it again, it doesn't meet all criteria:
I assume this exception was intentional for non-custodial privacy services.

This is an incredibly good point and I fully support it.

And, after what has happened with Jam... a certain service now seen as mixer and banned, although imho it was in a "gray" area (if we look at the rules in a strict manner), I feel that considering a CoinJoin coordinator as mixer is just fine (since gray area is no longer acceptable). However, keep in mind that my opinion on that matter may be biased.

Playing devil's advocate here: you can't really say he hijacked it, if he's the one who created it.

He did indeed just pop up in my notifications with this.

Same here. I don't want to read his posts. But if he's promoting his own coinjoin coordinator, shouldn't that be banned? See:
Not banning the wallet is one thing, but isn't actively promoting the coordinator more or less the same as promoting mixing?

I am under the impression that almost all new wasabi coordinators and monitoring services are a little more aggressive active than necessary

I was part of the WasabiWallet signature campaign and at times it was very difficult. I had the feeling that whatever the campaign brought to the band, kruw would do everything to cancel it immediately. It was very difficult to maintain a civilized discussion if he was also part of it.
Yes, that's the only way, to ignore and avoid any discussion with him.

I would not be surprised if this is his "strategy" to draw attention, hence advertise his service.


I have him on ignore list since then. I know it's not nice, since somebody has to counter him too and expose his lies, but yeah, my sanity matters too.



Sadly I don't have other advice than not responding him and - now and then - advise people to ignore him in larger numbers. Not sure how effective would that be though.

When there was a campaign on the forum they did not have an official representative active here, so now I don't think they will appear.

On the other hand, it doesn't surprise me that this scum everything he does has as its only interest his personal economic benefit, in this case to promote his coordinator, no matter how much he wants to sell it as privacy protection.

Is someone from Wasabi team finally going to come up and say something about this Kruw hijacker who hijacked Wasabi topic and he is using it for promoting his coordinator crap?

This guy popped up from nowhere in 2023 and he is acting like representative of Wasabi wallet, but in reality he uses it only to promote his own coordinator.

Let's remember that we are talking about the same guy who was celebrating when another forum member announced he was leaving the forum because he was terminally ill.

Kruw is constantly making fake scam accusations to everyone who ever joined any mixing campaign in the past, and he didn't provide a single proof for his claims.

Hijacker Kruw profile:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/kruw-3534730

Hijacked topic:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wasabi-wallet-open-source-noncustodial-coinjoin-software-5476197

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