{"id":20206,"date":"2019-04-24T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6cd0032697"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:54:31","slug":"version-114-gives-wasabi-wallet-boost-privacy-security-and-ux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/version-114-gives-wasabi-wallet-boost-privacy-security-and-ux","title":{"rendered":"Version 1.1.4 Gives Wasabi Wallet a Boost in Privacy, Security and UX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/version-114-gives-wasabi-wallet-a-boost-in-privacy.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/wasabi-wallet-10-here-make-bitcoin-transactions-more-private\">Wasabi Wallet<\/a> has released version 1.1.4 of its privacy-focused wallet and the latest upgrade comes with security-bolstering features, improved performance and a curiously named \u2014 but definitely useful \u2014 new \u201cLurking Wife Mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proudly advertised as the wallet that lets users \u201creclaim [their] privacy,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/wasabiwallet.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wasabi<\/a> desktop wallet is indeed a favorite of bitcoiners who want to obscure their transactions and make their coins more fungible (i.e., indistinguishable from others on the network).<\/p>\n<p>Wasabi\u2019s use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bitcoin.it\/wiki\/CoinJoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoinJoin<\/a> has largely made the bid for anonymity possible. The feature allows users to bundle their wallet balances together, effectively shuffling the coins to obscure sender, receiver and the coins\u2019 point of origin information. Since CoinJoin was enabled in August 2018, the wallet claims that over 28,000 BTC have been made fungible through the process.<\/p>\n<p>With its latest release, the wallet is taking its privacy features further still. Alongside user experience improvements \u2014 such as reducing bandwidth requirements 20-fold and increasing loading speed by 12 times \u2014 the wallet now features \u201cLurking Wife Mode.\u201d Whether it\u2019s a wife, husband or some other person loitering behind your screen, the mode censors certain sensitive information so as to not expose it to bystanders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just a small (and surprisingly useful) UI feature: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AzPnCAxWyl\">pic.twitter.com\/AzPnCAxWyl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nopara73 (@nopara73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nopara73\/status\/1120831035007279110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It also includes added support for Tor. Before the upgrade, Wasabi used Tor only when members would communicate with a CoinJoin coordinator. Now, \u201ceverything goes through Tor,\u201d the update\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zkSNACKs\/WalletWasabi\/releases\/tag\/v1.1.4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patch notes<\/a> state, achieving \u201cthe theoretical limit of network level privacy that is possible in cryptocurrencies today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This version even has your back if you blundered your password upon setting up your wallet. If you let a typo slip into the password you provided when creating your wallet, you now have the opportunity to brute-force the mistake and reclaim control of your wallet with a new password finder.<\/p>\n<p>The detail and scope of the wallet\u2019s new features, from privacy-strengthening additions to user experience and interface improvements, are some of the most comprehensive and noteworthy in contemporary desktop wallets, and it\u2019s certainly the most expansive and feature-laden of Wasabi\u2019s updates. And even with all of the previously mentioned upgrades in mind, there\u2019s yet another impressive addition \u2014 the <em>pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance<\/em>: hardware wallet integration.<\/p>\n<p>While notably qualified as an \u201cEXPERIMENTAL\u201d (emphasis: Wasabi\u2019s) feature, the wallet now interoperates with the Coldcard Mark1, Ledger Nano S and Trezor Model T.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther hardware wallets are likely to also work,\u201d the GitHub notes claim, but the team didn\u2019t have access to the specifications to these so they couldn\u2019t test them to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately coinjoins are not possible with hardware wallets, so that feature had to be turned off for these kind of wallets. We will work on smoother intra-wallet workflows, like send-to-wallet functionality and multiwallet monitoring,\u201d per the notes.<\/p>\n<p>This feature undoubtedly enhances security. Known for their robust protection and reliability, hardware wallets offer perhaps the safest method to store cryptocurrencies, as the private key for a wallet is kept offline in the device itself. With this addition, Wasabi is offering its users an enhanced security option which will serve to compliment the stellar privacy features that the wallet is currently known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasabi Wallet has released version 1.1.4 of its privacy-focused wallet and the latest upgrade comes with security-bolstering features, improved performance and some interesting new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2566,"featured_media":20207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[291,1472,1626],"class_list":["post-20206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture","tag-coinjoin","tag-tor","tag-wasabi"],"author_data":{"id":2566,"name":"Colin Harper","nicename":"colin-harper","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MjEwMTYzMzc3Njg5ODYzNjQ2-96x96.webp"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/version-114-gives-wasabi-wallet-a-boost-in-privacy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}