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This is absolutely outrageous.

This is called a Sybil attack, and the operator of this mixing software is admitting - and even laughing about it - that Sybilling their users is official company policy.

From the article: archive.is/jnlpW
We first detected Sybil behaviour in Wasabi during the summer of 2019, which was flatly denied by the Wasabi team. Further to that, our staff were doxxed by Mr. Fiscor in retaliation for our disclosure.

At the time we had no reason to believe that Wasabi was Sybiling, though we labelled the entity "the friendly whale" as they always appeared when liquidity was low and needed a pick me up. We continued to research this as it was clear they wouldn't.

medium.com/samourai-walle…
We also started to see various members of the Wasabi team saying that Sybil behaviour isn't really bad for user privacy at all.
Gradually our theory shifted from a malicious outside actor to a malicious inside actor. It is no secret that Wasabi Wallet has close ties to the EU Commission, with one of their Co-CEO's serving for half a decade as a "Research and Innovation Expert"
The only thing that started to make sense was that Wasabi was intentionally trying to give CoinJoin a bad name, with such a naive and faulty implementation and that Adam Fiscor had been duped by these EU snakes.

And then this article drops today decrypt.co/30756/bitcoin-…
What should have been an article about an excellent new privacy enhancing technology proposed by Chris Belcher became a stunning nonchalant admission from the founder and architect of Wasabi Wallet that they Sybil their own users "to keep thing running smooth".
This is an attack on bitcoin privacy broadly, and CoinJoin as a technology specifically and should absolutely not be tolerated by any bitcoin user, especially users of Wasabi wallet.
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