Wallet and Sabi will no longer prevent stolen bitcoins from entering the Kevin Join mixer

The Wasabi Wallet, of which the CoinJoin mixer is one of the services available, intends to prevent malicious addresses from accessing the mixer by marking some Bitcoin network units involved in criminal activities. Slowly It is worth mentioning that it is also possible to use the Kevin Joven mixer through platforms other than wallets and wallets.

To Report The Block, Wallet and Sabbath Development Team, recently announced that it was blacklisting bitcoins related to illegal activities and blocking their access to the Quinn Join mixer. A number of privacy advocates have criticized the move.

The wallet-based privacy wallet, which mixer Kevin Join is one of the services available, announced on Sunday that it will continue to block certain addresses.

Traders can use mixer services to hide and trace their transaction history. These types of services both protect the privacy of users and attract criminals who want to hide their stolen bitcoins. For example, in 2020, a person hacked Twitter and sent fake messages to various users through popular accounts. Reports from Elliptic China blockchain analytics company show that the hacker eventually entered his stolen funds into Quinn Join’s service so that they could not be traced. Another report shows that the KuCoin exchange hacker also used this mixer service.

Although Wasabi had banned such illegal acts for some time by setting certain terms and conditions, it now wants to take a more proactive and stronger approach to preventing them.

This news was announced by a user named Rafe on the social network Twitter. Reef is a member of the platform’s development team, according to a post on the Wallet and Sabi website.

Reef said:

We try to reduce the number of hackers and scammers who use this service and cause us trouble, and protect our company and project. The company has the right to do so; But believe me, none of us are happy about that.

According to him, those who use the “zkSNACKs” coordinator belonging to Wasabi will be blacklisted. Coordinator is a system that organizes the process of combining the bitcoins in the wallets of different people. It is important to note that people using other coordinators are not going to be blocked from accessing the Kevin Join mixer. It is worth noting that anyone can use their own coordinator.

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In fact, this coordinator is supposed to limit some “UTXOs” or “unspent transaction outputs”. Unspent outputs Transactions are generated basically every time a person spends (transfers) a bitcoin. In most cases, when a trader spends some digital currency, the rest of his wallet balance is considered unspent output. This indicates that the service can specifically block the amount of bitcoins stolen.

Adam Fiscor, the founder of Wallace and Wasabi, also said that using Blacklist in Wasabi is a major setback for the issue of bitcoin exchangeability. Interchangeability means that any bitcoin can be exchanged for another bitcoin.

Fiskor pointed to the glorious days of 2013 when members of the Bitcoin community opposed such listings. He spoke out against the restrictions, calling for a mixer such as Kevin Joyne.