One thing I learned by reading the Genesis book by Aaron is that that people who worked on this tech didn’t care about making money or profits they truly were trying to protect people from what was to come
Both wasabi and samurai were running businesses and making money by offering privacy as a service. It doesn’t surprise me one bit they are trying to save their asses. Such a shame
Exactly, how many of these companies really want to build a decentralized, empowering Bitcoin that gives power to the people? Too few, the fiat mentality is still in them and they are nothing more than opportunists.
I haven't read the book, what is the full name of the book?
Wasabi Wallet APRIL 27, 2024 | 1 MINUTES READ ZKSNACKS IS NOW BLOCKING U.S. RESIDENTS AND CITIZENS zkSNACKs is now blocking U.S. citizens and residents from visiting its websites, downloading and using Wasabi Wallet and any related products and services, including APIs and RPC interfaces.
Wasabi Wallet Saturday, April 27th 2024—Effective immediately and until further notice, zkSNACKs is now blocking U.S. citizens and residents from visiting its websites, downloading and using Wasabi Wallet and any related products and services, including APIs and RPC interfaces.
In light of recent announcements by U.S. authorities, zkSNACKs is now strictly prohibiting U.S. users from using its services. An IP address blocking for U.S. residents is effective on wasabiwallet.io, api.wasabiwallet.io and zksnacks.com.
“U.S.” refers to “United States” and includes the several states of the United States and related territories. If you are a United States Citizen or United States Resident, you are not allowed to visit any sites aforementioned, download Wasabi Wallet or use the Wasabi Wallet coinjoin feature. This includes if you are a U.S. permanent resident or if you are an individual that holds a U.S. passport.
It looks in line with the fiat banking system outside the US, no financial institution (banks, brokerage) wants to deal with US citizens, too much trouble to have them as customers
LOL
https://i.postimg.cc/7ZG3tVrM/compliance.jpg
One thing I learned by reading the Genesis book by Aaron is that that people who worked on this tech didn’t care about making money or profits they truly were trying to protect people from what was to come
Both wasabi and samurai were running businesses and making money by offering privacy as a service. It doesn’t surprise me one bit they are trying to save their asses. Such a shame
Exactly, how many of these companies really want to build a decentralized, empowering Bitcoin that gives power to the people? Too few, the fiat mentality is still in them and they are nothing more than opportunists.
I haven't read the book, what is the full name of the book?
The Genesis Book https://thegenesisbook.com/
People who geo-block bitcoin are not real Bitcoiners.
I can't blame them for trying to avoid becoming a scapegoat. Who will come to their defense when they will be jailed?
Gloves are off
If you can't read it:
It looks in line with the fiat banking system outside the US, no financial institution (banks, brokerage) wants to deal with US citizens, too much trouble to have them as customers
Yes, hodlhodl.com doesn't allow USA since day one.
zkSNACKs can go fork a tree branch. This is where their "utxo blacklisting" was leading to.
Can you post the text since that blog itself is blocked here?
(Also, wasabiwallet.is and www.zksnacks.com both seem fine right now; it's just wasabiwallet.io that I get a Cloudflare block at.)
#520779
Thanks. Can confirm for now that the wallet can still be downloaded from the .is site.
Scam sites. If you download wasabi from there scammers will take all your miney
Oof. That .is site was literally the top one on duckduckgo.
Yes, duckduckgo refuses to do anything regarding this.
Wasabi wallet.io is allowing download wallet.
https://wasabiwallet.io/index.html#download
I get the Cloudflare block from that one. I'm guessing whatever they're rolling out is kind of piecemeal, maybe?
Those are not wasabi websites, they are controlled by scammers
wasabiwallet.is is fake scammer site
The United States is becoming a third world country.
Gradually, then suddenly.
They wont block it forever, just until they have a better idea what is happening.
Im sure they are only one of many who will do this.