Proposal: adding a chain analysis warning in Wasabi wallet page

[AnonymousMedusa]

Before pulling a request, I would like to talk about this and to read your opinions. As I have said in the other proposal, Wasabi wallet default coordinator is funding the operation of chain analysis company, which is something I believe the user should be aware of.

I believe that bitcoin.org should say below "This wallet lets you setup and use Tor ... your IP address." the following text:

By default this wallet uses a central coordinator to coinjoin, which funds a chain analysis company.

This is just it. Simple fact that the user must know.

I think the following changes are sufficient, correct me otherwise:

1. In en.yml addition of: checkpassfundingchainanalysis: "Funding of chain analysis" and
   checkpassfundingchainanalysistxt: "By default this wallet uses a central coordinator to coinjoin, which funds a chain analysis company."
2. In wasabi.md, addition of: fundingchainanalysis: "checkpassfundingchainanalysis" under privacynetwork: "checkpassprivacynetworksupporttorproxy"
3. In wallets.yaml, addition of:

fundingchainanalysis:
                   description: Does the privacy-focused wallet fund the operation of a chain analysis company?
                   type: string
                   enum:
                     - checkpassfundingchainanalysis

[Kruwed]

This is extremely misleading. The default coordinator is not "funding a chain analysis company." Here's a list of what zkSNACKs funds:

• $2,500 monthly donation to the Tor project (https://zksnacks.com/)
• 1 BTC donation to the Human Rights Foundation Bitcoin Development Fund (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/06/25/summer-2020-is-funding-season-for-open-source-bitcoin-development/)
• .86 BTC donation (along with Bull Bitcoin) to Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr (https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/bitcoin-knots-donation/)
• 1.11 BTC grant for privacy research on the Lightning Network (https://lightningprivacy.com/)
• 4 million sats (so far) to the best bruteforcer in the community (https://www.huntingsats.com/)
• Sponsorships of Bitcoin educational podcasts such as What Bitcoin Did, Bitcoin Takeover, and What Is Money?
• Sponsorships of Bitcoin events such as BTCPrague, Bitcoin Amsterdam, Baltic Honeybadger (and others I'm sure I'm missing)

Despite all this generosity, how coordinator fees are spent are not really relevant for users who just want to use the software.

[AnonymousMedusa]

The default coordinator is not "funding a chain analysis company."

This is definitely a lie. Wasabi wallet team is buying information from an unknown chain analysis company: This means they are directly funding the development of chain surveillance.

Despite all this generosity, how coordinator fees are spent are not really relevant for users who just want to use the software.

In my opinion, users who seek privacy should know that their fees go to blockchain analysis company that spies their inputs and might censor them based on their findings.

[crwatkins]

In the past, new scoring categories or descriptions that affect only one listing have been rejected on the basis of maintaining uncluttered listing displays and simple filters/wizards. In addition, scoring depends on objective criteria which can easily be determined for all wallets. Scoring wallets based on how some think developers spend their revenue seems extremely impractical (ignoring the question of whether it is useful or not).

(To define some nomenclature that might be helpful here, this issue is proposing changes to the internal (questionably named) wallet scoring system, which in the most recent UX update exposes these items to end users of the site as "criteria". This system drives the generation of the listings as well as the operation of the filters and the wizard.)