Wasabi Wallet team begins blocking ‘suspicious’ addresses

The CoinJoin service integrated into Wasabi Wallet began rejecting some unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs).

Those using the zkSNACKs coordinator, run by the Wasabi team, may be blocked. The measure does not apply to those who use alternative coordinators.

Terms of Use of the wallet prohibit illegal operations. The latest steps are aimed at preventing them more actively.

We are committed to protecting the company and the project, minimising the use by hackers and scammers […] Believe me, none of us are happy about what is happening — wrote one of the developers under the nickname BTCparadigm.

No.

We are trying to protect the company and the project by minimizing the amount of these hackers and scammers using the coordinator and getting us in trouble.

This should be in the rights of the company to do but believe me, none of us are happy about this.

— Rafe 🌮⚡🔑🔦 (@BTCparadigm) March 13, 2022

Founder of Wasabi Wallet Adam Ficsor acknowledged that CoinJoin now features a ‘blacklist’.

‘I consider this a major obstacle to Bitcoin’s fungibility’, — wrote him.

Blacklisting arrived to coinjoins. IMO it is a major setback to Bitcoin’s fungibility.

— nopara73🐬 (@nopara73) March 14, 2022

Ficsor did not respond to questions about who prompted the team to such actions. Instead, he recalled the ‘glorious days’ when, in 2013, the Bitcoin community opposed such restrictions and supported the use of CoinJoin.

Glorious days https://t.co/1MqZT5xA7x

— nopara73🐬 (@nopara73) March 13, 2022

Back in September 2020, a hacker who carried out a successful attack on the KuCoin exchange laundered part of the bitcoins through the Wasabi wallet.

Earlier, the Tornado Cash team warned that it cannot ensure compliance with sanctions imposed on Russia amid the Ukraine invasion.

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