Wasabi works great with almost every hardware wallet on the market – and Max Hillebrand is the man who is responsible for pushing for this integration to be made. Today, you can benefit from the main BIP39 features of your Trezor, BitBox02, Ledger Nano S/X, Cobo Vault, or Coldcard Mk3 from Wasabi wallet’s privacy-friendly dashboard.
Your internet connection gets routed via Tor, the wallet automatically uses the full Bitcoin node that you’re running in the background (or else downloads block filters to your computer to make sure you don’t trust somebody else’s node with your transaction data), and the interface makes it easy for you to manage UTXOs.
But Max Hillebrand didn’t join the show for the second time only to state these well-known facts. And even when he did, he attributed Bitcoin Core developer Andrew Chow with the merit of creating the HWI integration – while Hillebrand merely saw the code’s potential to improve Wasabi.
He talks about the power of open source software, how CoinJoins can be improved, and which significant upgrades we should expect from the upcoming version 2.0 of the Wasabi wallet.
The future of Bitcoin development is likewise significant in the context, and Max Hillebrand takes the time to praise Ruber Somsen’s efforts to create Statechains, while also explaining that sidechains really are the future.
Just like every other episode in season 8, this piece is sponsored by Wasabi. But in order to better explain what the wallet does and what we should be looking forward to, I have decided to invite Max. This participation can be regarded as a continuation of our previous dialogue from S6 E6, as we extend on the breakthroughs that have happened in the meantime.
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And if you would like to increase your network and transaction privacy, you should download Wasabi Wallet on your computer. It routes your connection through the Tor network to hide your IP, it downloads block filters so you validate your own transactions locally without appealing to a trusted third party, and it also connects to your own full node to boost your financial sovereignty. Wasabi is best known for its link-breaking CoinJoins, which are giving a hard time even to the EuroPol. Use the wallet to increase your financial sovereignty, but don’t do any illegal stuff – use your financial sovereignty with responsibility (also read the Wasabi terms of service).
Interview Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro
03:07 – Trends happening in the hardware wallet market (Tropic Square open source chips + DIY hardware wallets)
07:57 – Using Wasabi Wallet with your hardware wallet
09:00 – Andrew Chow’s HWI integration
12:10 – Every hardware wallet should work with Wasabi
17:03 – The power of open source
19:59 – When will Wasabi users be able to CoinJoin from their hardware wallets?
23:39 – Why CoinJoins are largely misunderstood
30:50 – What should we expect from Wasabi 2.0?
41:11 – Mistakes you shouldn’t make after doing CoinJoins
48:32 – After how many transactions do exchanges stop caring about previous CoinJoins?
50:45 – Fragmentation
56:11 – The future of Bitcoin privacy
1:02:27 – Statechains by Ruben Somersen
1:05:00 – Sidechains are the real decentralized exchanges
1:10:10 – Maintaining the base layer security after sidechains make everything cheaper, faster, and more private
1:12:03 – The true conviction of Bitcoin users and developers
1:17:44 – Misconceptions about bitcoiners’ wealth and how education works
1:19:45 – “We are here building money, but we are not really in it for the money”
1:25:00 – Defining anarchy
1:28:00 – Hyping season 9 of Bitcoin Takeover Podcast and explaining the philosophy of Bitcoin
1:35:30 – The vices of bitcoin riches
1:38:40 – How bitcoin lowers your time preference
1:41:54 – Bitcoin is bullish even when it dumps
1:46:27 – Max’s work and Socratic seminars
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