Wasabi desktop bitcoin wallet for privacy
- Regulatory status
- Not a financial service
- Custody
- Self-custody: you hold the keys
- Open source
- Yes
- Fees
- Free (MIT); coinjoin pays mining fees only, the client refuses rounds with a coordination fee; coinjoin minimum 5,000 sats plus mining fees (as of 2026-10-04)
- Website
- https://wasabiwallet.io
- Status
- Active
Swiss angle
Wasabi Wallet is open source software with no company named on its site. The Wasabi home page, read on 4 October 2026, calls it free and open source and says you always keep full control of your private keys, and the GitHub repository is MIT licensed. Nobody holds coins for you, so Wasabi is not a financial service.
You can pair it with the Swiss hardware wallet. The home page names BitBox02 among the supported hardware wallets, next to Trezor, ColdCard, Ledger and Blockstream Jade. There is one limit. The coinjoin documentation says you cannot coinjoin from a hardware wallet yet, because the keys must be on the computer. A BitBox02 owner can use Wasabi to send and receive privately, but not to coinjoin.
Privacy does not change your tax duty. Coins that went through a coinjoin are still your assets, and you declare them at the ESTV year-end value in the wealth tax section of your return; the Swiss Bitcoin tax guide explains how. Keep your own records of what you put in. A coinjoin makes the history harder for anyone to rebuild later, you included.
You now set up coinjoin yourself. The Wasabi introduction FAQ refers to the shutdown of the zkSNACKs coordinator on 1 June 2024, and the coinjoin documentation says you must configure a coordinator before your first coinjoin. The same page says the client only joins rounds where it pays mining fees and refuses rounds where the coordinator charges a fee.
Who it is for
Desktop users who care about privacy. The home page says all traffic goes through the Tor network and that the wallet syncs with compact filters instead of asking a central server about your addresses. The privacy chapter explains why that matters.
People who bought coins at an exchange under their own name and want to break that link before spending. The coinjoin FAQ gives the minimum per coin as 5,000 sats plus mining fees.
Users who want coin control and labels, which the home page lists among its features.
Who it is not for
Phone users. The home page says Wasabi is not available on mobile; the downloads for release 2.8.3 cover Windows, macOS and Linux.
Beginners who want a wallet that works out of the box. You pick the coinjoin coordinator yourself, and the introduction FAQ says Wasabi needs about 3 GB of disk space. If you want something simpler, start with the self-custody guide.
Hardware wallet owners who want coinjoin with cold keys, for the reason in the Swiss angle above.
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