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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @demitasse 27 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: What are some of the top bitcoin 2022 stories of the year? bitcoin
Yes.
in february Laura Shin published an article about how she discovered who the dao hacker was because chainalysis can demix wasabi coinjoins.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2022/02/22/exclusive-austrian-programmer-and-ex-crypto-ceo-likely-stole-11-billion-of-ether/?sh=7c70e18b7f58
Wasabi users have been caught up for at least 2 years by law enforcement prior to Laura going public:
https://scribe.rip/wasabi-wallet-mixing-is-broken-566f3726ff45
Samourai's oxt research demonstrates how easy it is to demix wasabi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcLdBsoDDg
Samourai already knows the xpubs of all users by design of whirlpool
https://fullycrypto.com/samourai-and-wasabi-exchange-blows-over-de-anonymized-accusations
Samourai's binaries are also not reproducible from source:
https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.samourai.wallet/
Joinmarket can also be demixed:
https://research.oxt.me/the-cold-case-files/1/preview
you can read an article I wrote about all of this in august, but it is behind my LN paywall, so it will cost you 300 sats:
https://narrativerry.xyz/blog/2022/08/27/hello-world/
Since hydra got busted because bitcoin can be demixed dark webs are going monero only, and it is snowballing. just look at dread or reddit darkweb forums.
https://cryptogemtokens.com/monero-is-replacing-bitcoin-on-darkweb-heres-why/