Giving this wallet a test run. How do you all think it compares with Sparrow?
Sparrow has a lot of flexibility with support for multisig and many different script types. However, Sparrow will leak all of the addresses in your wallet to third party servers during syncing unless you've already connected your full node first.
Wasabi specializes in privacy and does all network communications through Tor by default. Balance discovery uses compact block filters (BIP157/BIP158) by default to synchronize privately in a lightweight way. This reduces the data requirement compared to a full node by ~99% without leaking your wallet's addresses to anyone else's server.
The main feature of Wasabi is the ability to participate in coinjoin transactions. Coinjoins bundle your inputs with other users into the same transaction to fool tracking attempts made by blockchain analysis. Sparrow removed their coinjoin feature in April (although advanced users can build coinjoin transactions "manually" using Sparrow's tools).
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My understanding is that Wasabi's official 'coinjoin' coordinator is no more... Are there other coordinators, new ones, that are trusted with good liquidity? I'm very hesitant to use others unless they are vetted and legitimate.
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Coordinators aren't trusted with custody of funds or data, your open source software does the vetting for you. Here's some coinjoin explorer sites, I run a coordinator, you should run one too :)
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I appreciate you saying that. I'll hold off using before doing some more research.
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