Why is every Bitcoin skeptic citing its lack of utility as its biggest flaw? Everyone is comparing Bitcoin to digital gold or digital real estate, but has everyone forgotten that it’s a currency? It’s like asking for people to demonstrate your iPhone’s ability to open a beer. It can’t, it’s a phone!
We are living in the golden age of DIY hardware. Thanks to advancements in microprocessing and production/distribution, today we can purchase tiny yet powerful computers at surprisingly affordable prices – and then use them to perform surprisingly-complex tasks
We’re diving into our top 3 stories where people lost out on (possibly) millions because of losing their private keys to access their Bitcoin. We feel their pain and we would hate to be in their shoes.
Just like Bitcoin, the overwhelming majority of CoinJoin users are average people. From die-hard libertarians to people trying to use Bitcoin in a country where it is curtailed, there are many reasons to want privacy and Wasabi Wallet is the solution in an ecosystem where there is none.
Wasabi Wallet now uses the newest version of Bitcoin Knots (V0.21.1) on its backend after previously using a patched version due to a mempool issue where files over 32mb could not be serialized.
Hardware wallets are useful key management electronic devices which combine the security of a cold storage setup with the convenience of a hot wallet. Regardless of how they operate, all hardware wallets should work very well with Wasabi.
What is this WabiSabi protocol you ask? It’s an amazing new feature that will come as part of our 2.0 launch. The main idea behind it is that it can’t deanonymize you or steal your money, despite the fact that the CoinJoin is being operated by a coordinator.
Assuming that you care about privacy and have CoinJoined all your Bitcoin, let’s map out all the different ways to spend your sats without turning it into cold hard cash.
Created in 2011 by Thomas Voegtlin and constantly improved since, Electrum is the absolute benchmark by which Bitcoin desktop wallets get evaluated. It’s also no surprise that whenever Bitcoin fork projects were created, Electrum was among the
3 questions to avoid asking in the Bitcoin community and what you can ask instead.
We have established the main framework for our upcoming 2.0 release. We published the research paper for our new CoinJoin protocol, WabiSabi and the user interface will be much more intuitive. We are aiming to offer privacy for everyone and to make privacy the default.
Wasabi Wallet team heroically defends the server by implementing security measures while still being attacked by the botnets of zombie computers
The privacy challenges of the future will not be the same as those of the past.
“Pizza Day" has become a milestone in Bitcoin’s history, but how many articles address the privacy concerns that this transaction raises?
Wasabi Wallet’s superhero team has recently been formed under the name: The Powerpuff Team, and despite not being nearly as cute or even being girls, the differences are not that vast.
Wasabi Wallet and Bull Bitcoin donate .86 Bitcoin (roughly $40,000 worth) to Luke-jr, to support the development of Bitcoin Knots.
You might have seen the weekly announcements for the Wasabi Research Club. This is a weekly meeting, where Wasabikas discuss bitcoin privacy.
Eight years ago, David Molnar was a software developer working at what could be considered a typical 9-5 job. Now, he’s the CTO of one of the best established privacy-centric software wallets in the bitcoin ecosystem.
Privacy is important. At Wasabi, we believe it is both a fundamental human right and business need that should be preserved at all times.
On January 10, 2021, due to an implementation bug, Tor's v3 onion services were experiencing instability. A bug fix is already on the way, but until the update you may experience connection problems and delays.
