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Seth states that centralized swap services are increasingly freezing post-mix Wasabi and Samourai Wallet funds due to compliance pressure from upstream exchanges. In contrast, Cake Wallet offers refunds if user funds get flagged during a swap.
Development plans for Wasabi Wallet include direct hardware wallet coin joins, PayJoin V2, and silent payments. To maintain a strong security posture, the developers write and review all Nostr libraries internally without relying on external NPM packages.
Wasabi version 2.8.1 was released as a stable update, primarily addressing a syncing bug with full nodes and potentially a software update bug. Crew also advised users to perform coinjoins before chain forks to ensure replay protection and proper coin splitting.
Luttovo noted that blockchain data showed Wasabi's CoinJoin usage consistently outperforming Samourai's Whirlpool, suggesting Samourai's negative tactics against Nopara were driven by significant profit motives.
Wasabi Wallet's Ashikaru 1.1 release added Whirlpool stats via Tor, tx0 broadcast overlay warnings, Dojo Electrum server discovery, configurable am I exposed privacy checks, and card-based UTXO views.
Crew analyzed Bitcoin privacy epochs and showcased Wasabi Wallet's Wabi-Sabi coinjoin protocol, which allows variable input sizes and has recent privacy mitigations.
PayJoin adoption is low but growing, with Bull Bitcoin, Cake Wallet, Sparrow, and Wasabi working on compatible versions; Pouliot sees it as key to breaking chain analysis's common input ownership heuristic.
Wasabi Wallet 2.8 requires a mandatory upgrade due to Tor network changes, which will cease supporting versions older than 0.4.9.
The Wasabi Wallet 2.8 update incorporates Bitcoin's native compact filters, enables coinjoin payments, supports sub-1-sat per vByte transaction fees, batch payments, and broader operating system compatibility with ARM, Tails, and Whonix.
Wasabi Wallet Version 2.8.0 and Noah Version 0.1.3 have been released, alongside a new checkout method for in-person BTC Pay stores.