Topic: Wasabi topic hijacked by crooked Kruw (Read 1019 times)

I think the modus operandi when it comes to the nopara73 account is to function as a propaganda spouting tool for Kruw.

Some of the nonsense that has been regurgitated by Kruw over and over has been appalling and should not be forgotten. He had every opportunity to retract some of the comments and to present himself as an upstanding member of the community but he doubled-down and made a complete fool of himself. What was he to gain by attacking a seriously ill forum member other than to demonstrate his gutter-level politics but it did not stop him.

When this nopara73 account comes along to play the sidekick role, it is obvious they are trying to change the narrative but it is too late. Forum members will forever remember what Kruw did and will not have even an iota of respect nor sympathy for him (and probably the same for his sidekick nopara73)

Only people who haven't had an original idea in their entire life can say that. Ideas actually come first, they're the spark that ignites action. Without them, you're just spinning your wheels and running in circles.

@Dont Trust Verify is still not making it any better and continues to lie. A snapshot of the website taken over a month ago on the 18 Jun 2024 shows that the website was not redirecting to wasabi website as he claims: https://web.archive.org/web/20240618175136/https://kruw.io/

The domain information was updated on: 2024-06-11, which probably signals around the time the website went live.

Crooked Kruw alt accounts are also not allowed to post in this topic, and pretending to be someone else and referring to yourself as ''he'' is plain stupid.

Any AI can code today, so you don't have to be super smart to write few lines of code, but you can't have so many contributions in github, and be ''knowledgeable ex-zkSNACKs' employee'' (according to nopara73) that don't know anything about coding.
Someone could probably find a list of all ex-zkSNACKs employees to find some juicy information...

Doesn't surprise me.

(Docs don't require coding knowledge either besides Markdown or ReST.)

Are there any way to verify that?


How about this commit https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/commit/518f52d09fe95bb01078d3ada23368f1eb9ff56b? It seems he merge some code and UI text from his forked repository.

Didnt you leave Wasabi ship a while ago?
I think you literally used some sailing off term like that, I would add from sinking ship.
Kruw accused everyone to be scammers (except him), and I can show a bunch of evidence that his hocus-pocus coordinator is reusing addresses.
This ''highly knowledgeable'' person was also celebrating death of another forum member who didn't agree with him...

Done.
He is breaking the rules, or he didn't learn to read in school.

And can you please tell me what is this?
https://kruw.io/


Anonymous you say?
e4pool is exposing what this hocus-pocus coordinator is actually doing:
https://x.com/e4pool_com/status/1807290139539861923
https://x.com/e4pool_com/status/1799188068609695787





Shame to see nopara73 is another liar, or ignorant person.  

But both his Bitcointalk[1] and GitHub repoistory[2] shows he have website and WabiSabi Coordinator.


I don't understand this statement. Could you elaborate?


Even though he made 7 commits to Wasabi Wallet,  ?

[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/kruw-3534730
[2] https://github.com/Kruwed/kruwed.github.io
[3] https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/commits?author=Kruwed

LOL. That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard today. There's plenty of other ways to mix your bitcoins to render them anonymous. I would never use anything peddled by such a silly asshole of a human being. The fact that you can't see how his presence on this form damages the reputation of Wasabi is disheartening.


This part I agree with... if you open a thread about someone, they should be allowed to respond.

- unlike action, ideas are cheap
- kruw has no website
- you're right, not the only one
- zkSNACKs does not operate
- kruw can not code

I don't know how zkSNACKs operate, but Public Relation (PR) team or division on typical company would ask Kruw to be more careful with his words.


I think only few member here aware that Kruw contribute to Wasabi Wallet source code, blog page and some technical discussion (outside this forum). But his controversial action stands out too much here.

One of them, yes, but let's not act like he's the only one.

You seem to really like the guy. I don't. And I can think of many better ways to improve privacy than using this guy's website.

Kruw is the reason why Bitcoin can still be used anonymously right now. Doesn't that earn respect in your book? Even if it it doesn't, opening a topic to smear a person with the sole rule that "this person is not allowed to defend himself" is not the way to go...

He shot his own foot. Just because he worked with you doesn't mean we should stop calling out his stupid bitchy behavior. At the end of the day, you rip what you sow. You don't just demand for respect, you earn it just like the Heroism you are bleating about.

I think you have work to do, dkbit98.

A scam has victims. Every person who lost their coins there got refunded. This is old news. Get over it.

Your friend accuses multiple users of being scammers with no evidence in every breath. That ain't a character assassination. That's a suicide.

Kruw is a highly knowledgeable ex-zkSNACKs' employee I had the opportunity to work together with. Kudos for him for having the balls of running a coordinator for free. He takes 100% risk and gets none of the reward. It's disappointing to see these disgusting character assassinations against him. Kruw is a hero.

That's like saying everyone with a bank account is a criminal

Have you checked that I've written a red feedback for this reason?

Do you mean a scam in the recent 0-day incident sense, or generally they're lying about the privacy gains? The coordinators weren't a lot to begin with. It was just one, zkSNACKs', and then, when it got shut down, some people like Kruw decided to run their own.

So, let me get this straight. Anyone who promoted a mixing service that facilitated money laundering, or provided liquidity to that service, is considered a criminal, in your view?

Whatever his beliefs about analysis when attempting coinjoins, that should have been where is focus remained. When he started defending his action and started insulting members (and especially attacking a highly respected recently departed one), he stooped low in to gutter levels of disgrace. He has no way to get back in to any positive light of most members here.

Maybe he promoted his services after his reputation fell because he just cannot control that overinflated ego.

He didn't expect so much resistance from certain people. He thought no one would oppose him and would be praising him and the software he represents and advertises. When people started seeing through his bullshit, he decided to go on a rampage against anyone who didn't shower him with praises and positive comments. That's when he started calling people scammers, thieves, bitches for not running their own coordinators, and also accused them for being anti open-source, anti-bitcoin, and anti-privacy.

Couldn't agree more.

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword"

I guess we should apply the same logic he used to label him a scammer too.

Kruw dug an early, deep grave for himself, but his arrogance and ill ego wouldn't let him get back to any form of normal senses. Sometimes I even wondered why he wasted his time advertising around here after showing how toxic he is.

I would actually be happy if this was true for the reasons you touched upon. Many users who wore mixer signatures were called scammers. He said they should be ashamed of themselves for tricking people into using mixers and they personally should return the money they stole. Only a degenerate could think of something like that. Fast forward to the present, we are reading news about scammers using his personal coordinator to allegedly launder money. Using his retarded viewpoint, he is a scammer who should be ashamed for letting it happen. If signature participants are thieves and scammers who steal money, he is a criminal who participates in money laundering. Either both of these statements are true or neither of them are. I wonder if the mentally insane Kruw now has a different view on his past statements considering that he is now personally affected!? And when I say personally affected, he is as much to blame for this as the signature participants who he called thieves and scammers.

You literally don't understand my point so I am not going to reply to your posts anymore and try to explain it.
And YES, there are such things as SCAM centralized coordinators, most of them are not active anymore and they are probably controlled by one guy.
Do your research.

Oh the ''forum's survival''  
I didn't see theymos or other DT members supporting mixing services that facilitated North Korean hackers and money laundering, but I guess some coordinators are like polar bears for you.

PS
I will repeat again - Kruw accused all bitcointalk members who ever had any mixer signature in their profiles as scammers.

You literally called a coordinator a scam for facilitating stolen coins.

His accusations go on custodial mixers, and their shortcomings, which are true to this date. Being censorship advocate does not make you a scammer. It might make you an anti-Bitcoin asshole, but not a scammer.

What does theymos banning a certain type of service for the sake of this forum's survival have to do with treating a person as a scammer because he mixed coins with a scammer / criminal? None.

I don't know about that, but he always presented his crap as perfectly safe service that makes Bitcoin ''anonymous''... yeah right.
Many of this coordinators were probably honeypots  or made by scammers.

There is nothing anti-bitcoin in my post, I only talked about hypocrite Kruw who accused everyone else for being a scammer who promoted anything other than his centralized coordinator crap.
And I didn't hear you called theymos anti-bitcoin when he banned mixers and samourai wallet, I guess you have double standards  
If you want to support hackers and thieves go ahead.

Are you serious? I've opposed Kruw in a host variety of things, but this one is clearly anti-Bitcoin to argue. Just because a criminal mixed his coins, does that make everyone involved a criminal? That's the anti-privacy notion we should all be defending against, not adopt.

Every single privacy solution can be declared criminally operating for allegedly facilitating illegal activities. Tor, mixers, Monero, everything. It's a shame to claim they're "scams" or "for criminals" for that reason.

Smells like a red tag.
I wouldn't be surprised if kruw is behind wasabicoordinator.io. The shit that comes from there looks a lot like him

Kruw centralized coordinator crap appears to be directly connected with scammer who hacked several exchanges MEXC, Gate, Binance, Kraken, OKX, HTX, HitBTC, etc.
This is direct money laundering and now we can say that Kruw is also a scammer and criminal, and that is much worse than all his unproved scam accusations against bitcointalk members.
We also found out that many of wasabi centralized coordinators are just another way of attack on bitcoin users.

wabisabi coinjoin tx:
https://mempool.space/tx/538a97650fc877efcaf55fd36d8e06a675873284a160efbaf59c60f7880ae750

kruw coordinator used:
https://wasabist.io/8/95e809d3c00fd3beaddef141b021ddaab64dbf23f3a74035a5b983f8894cf77c

Source:
https://x.com/1440000bytes/status/1810923857584242755

As of last month it is no longer privacy-enhancing wallet software unless you plug in a coordinator to use.

He might just be their social media voice, and Bitcointalk is only one of the platforms on his list. There is no Kruw coordinator without Wasabi, so he has to advertise and talk about both. But he is an awful representative regardless of what his job is. I am repulsed by anything connected to the name Wasabi now and he is a big reason for that. I am sure that I am not the only one.

He literally accused everyone who ever had any mixer signature in their profile to be scammers.
There is no need to personally name each individual members.

I am sure that he won't leave because of more red trust, and it does matter if he is constantly lying and making false accusations.

He is doing a terrible job in ''advertising'' Wasabi wallet.
If he is insider of Wasabi that he is the worse insider that ever existed on this earth.

He is an insider from Wasabi, he himself has admitted he's a contributor. He may think he's advertising for the sake of the "best open-source, privacy-enhancing wallet software" in existence, and it may be morally rewarding for him.

I refuse to believe that a company is paying a troll to derail conversations on an Internet board, effectively defaming their product. That's like shooting yourself in the foot. He just really likes what he's contributing at, and is willing to spend his time attacking competitors online. Not the first person, certainly not the last.

Some would say that there is no such thing as bad advertising.
Kruw made an effort to talk about him here, several topics about him, at least about his behaviour towards Leo, but Wasabi's name is always included in all the discussions.
Maybe he's not paid for it, but certainly, Wasabi doesn't have much reason to come here and convince him to stop his nonsense.

What do you think it is then?
Competitor of Wasabi is paying that shit for doing all these?
Knowing how Wasabi treat the community and use the money they earn against the spirit of crypto, I do think Wasabi is paying him or he is insider from Wasabi.

I'm not sure he ever truly became anti-censorship. It's just that recently, due to liquidity constraints, he has portrayed his stance as being free of blacklists. To me, he still one major advocate for censorship, wanting to dictate how others can use their money and mocking anyone whose spending habits he disapproves of.

Dedicating advertising? If I were Wasabi, I'd pay him to stop talking. That's not advertising. That's defamation.

Who will do such dedicated advertising? Someone from Wasabi or someone who is paid a lot of money to promote Wasabi.

Don't forget how he passionately defended Wasabi and zkSNACKs decisions regarding blacklisting certain bitcoins and preventing them from participating in coinjoins. Every post of his was about how that's the right decision because you shouldn't allow criminals, scammers, and thieves privacy and the right to participate in coinjoins with honest people. Then, when zkSNACKs' coordinator sunk, he created his own and went the opposite direction. No blacklisting and everyone can participate. When asked what's that about and why is it now ok for those you considered criminals and scammers a few months ago to use your coordinator for their "dirty" bitcoins, he started calling people pussys for not running their own coordinator and how they are anti-privacy. Multiple users were asked, where is your coordinator? Here is mine...


With the right motivation and money, you can probably get him to say anything. I would be very careful using anything of his. Something doesn't smell right about that guy.

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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