{"id":58753,"date":"2022-03-14T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58753"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:23:43","slug":"wasabi-wallet-team-begins-blocking-suspicious-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wasabi-wallet-team-begins-blocking-suspicious-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasabi Wallet team begins blocking &#8216;suspicious&#8217; addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CoinJoin service integrated into Wasabi Wallet began rejecting some unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs).<\/p>\n<p>Those using the zkSNACKs coordinator, run by the Wasabi team, may be blocked. The measure does not apply to those who use alternative coordinators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zkSNACKs\/WalletWasabi\/blob\/master\/WalletWasabi\/Legal\/Assets\/LegalDocuments.txt\">Terms of Use<\/a> of the wallet prohibit illegal operations. The latest steps are aimed at preventing them more actively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>We are committed to protecting the company and the project, minimising the use by hackers and scammers [\u2026] Believe me, none of us are happy about what is happening<\/em> \u2014 wrote one of the developers under the nickname BTCparadigm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This should be in the rights of the company to do but believe me, none of us are happy about this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafe \ud83c\udf2e\u26a1\ud83d\udd11\ud83d\udd26 (@BTCparadigm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTCparadigm\/status\/1503154471278460932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Founder of Wasabi Wallet Adam Ficsor acknowledged that CoinJoin now features a &#8216;blacklist&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8216;I consider this a major obstacle to Bitcoin&#8217;s fungibility&#8217;,<\/em> \u2014 wrote him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blacklisting arrived to coinjoins. IMO it is a major setback to Bitcoin&#8217;s fungibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nopara73\ud83d\udc2c (@nopara73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nopara73\/status\/1503166368581132290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ficsor did not respond to questions about who prompted the team to such actions. Instead, he recalled the &#8216;glorious days&#8217; when, in 2013, the Bitcoin community opposed such restrictions and supported the use of CoinJoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glorious days <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1MqZT5xA7x\">https:\/\/t.co\/1MqZT5xA7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nopara73\ud83d\udc2c (@nopara73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nopara73\/status\/1502992087964434432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in September 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kucoin-bitcoin-exchange-hacked-losses-estimated-at-150-million\">a hacker who carried out a successful attack on the KuCoin exchange<\/a> laundered part of the bitcoins through <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kucoin-hacker-began-laundering-bitcoin-through-wasabi-mixer\">the Wasabi wallet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Tornado Cash team warned that it cannot ensure compliance with sanctions imposed on Russia amid the Ukraine invasion.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CoinJoin service integrated into Wasabi Wallet began rejecting some unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,1544,933],"class_list":["post-58753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-coinjoin","tag-wasabi-wallet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58755,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753\/revisions\/58755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}