Wasabi 2.0 - TestNet Release

[molnard]

Summary

Welcome! This release is a long-awaited milestone in our journey to Wasabi 2.0. It is the first publicly available version of Wasabi 2.0 suitable for Testing purposes. It only allows you to CoinJoin on TestNet and we do not recommend using the wallet on MainNet yet - don't be #reckless. The software is still under active development, so be careful.

Are you a first-time user?

• Download the package below by choosing your favorite operating system.
• Install and try it out! 🤞

Already using Wasabi?

• This installation will overwrite your current version of Wasabi 1.0 ❗. If you want to continue using Wasabi 1.0, especially CoinJoining on MainNet, we suggest installing this version under a new user profile of your operating system. If you still want to experiment with overwriting your existing installation, make sure to change the network settings to TestNet and you have backed up everything - as usual.
• Download the package below by choosing your favorite operating system.
• Install and try it out! 🤞
• You can downgrade from the test version by installing the latest stable release of Wasabi 1.0.

Download here 🔥 🚀

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux - Read more below!! 👇
• Other packages, see below.

The version is intentionally v1.98.0.0.

Where to get TestNet coins?

• Create a Wallet and a Receive address in Wasabi - it will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
• There are services that can send you TestNet coins into your wallet - they are called faucets.
• Choose one or more from the following list of faucets and follow the instructions:
  • https://testnet-faucet.mempool.co/
  • https://bitcoinfaucet.uo1.net/
  • https://kuttler.eu/en/bitcoin/btc/faucet/
  • https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet/
• You should receive the coins in less than a minute. 💸

FAQ

• Requirements? Windows 10 1607+ (except 1703), macOs 10.15+, Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04+, Fedora 33+, Debian 10+
• Compatibility? Click here.

Feedback

Your feedback is essential for the development of Wasabi 2.0.

• There is a dedicated discussion for this release below. 👇
• Join the general discussion.
• Or create a new issue here.

Release Notes

• Everything changed, find it out yourself 😉

For Linux users 🐧

After the installation of the deb package, run the following two commands:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wasabiwallet/wassabee
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wasabiwallet/Microservices/Binaries/lin64/Tor/tor

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This discussion was created from the release Wasabi 2.0 - TestNet Release.

[ghost]

Good job!

I was trying it with Linux and I found the path is wrong:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/walletwasabi/wassabee

this is the correct one:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wasabiwallet/wassabee

[molnard]

Thx I fixed the description. 🙏

[brijananand]

I'm currently doing a trial run of Wasabi 2.0 on Arch Linux (EndeavourOS x86_64). I'm aware that it isn't officially a supported Linux distro to run this, but I was willing to give it a shot to see how well it runs and to perform a test coinjoin to experience it. Below, I'm just posting a few observations

Distro and environment information in detail:

OS: Arch Linux (EndeavourOS x86_64)
Kernel: 5.16.12
Total memory: 16 GB
CPU: Intel i7-10875H (8 cores 16 threads) @ 5.100GHz

Wasabi 1.98.0 Testnet release installs and runs fine after modifying the PKGBUILD available in AUR repo to fetch the new Testnet prerelease instead of Wasabi 1.0.

A couple of things I've noticed:

1. After the initial Testnet block synchronization is completed, for a while the CPU usage remains high constantly hovering around 70-100%, but this eventually subsides after about 30-45 minutes of runtime and only occasionally shows up with a high CPU usage for a few seconds and runs fine after that.
   

2. After a 20 minutes of the auto-coinjoin process which is still in process I notice my first error in the terminal in which I ran executed the command 'wassabee' to run the GUI application:

This error showed up again an hour after receiving the previous error:

However, the coinjoining process is still on-going and hasn't paused in the GUI:

[molnard]

Makes sense. The error you saw means that the round was aborted by the coordinator, for some reason - like a timeout. Currently, the coordinator waits 1 hour, and then if the number of participants reached the minimum threshold, the round progresses forward to the next phase. If not then it aborts the round and creates a new one. This is expected behavior so from UX you should not see any notice about this. The confusion comes from the log message is being and "ERROR" but it is not - so that needs to be fixed.

Thank you for the feedback!

[molnard]

#7481

[jenkijo]

Hello, I've succesfully build a version for Apply Silicon, how can I contribute it

[yahiheb]

You can open a Pull Request.

[scgbckbone]

2022-03-10 09:57:43.304 [1] ERROR ProcessAsync.Start (58) System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (13): An error occurred trying to start process '/usr/local/bin/wasabiwallet/Microservices/Binaries/lin64/hwi' with working directory '/home/more'. Permission denied

on Linux workstation 5.13.0-30-generic #33~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 7 14:25:10 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wasabiwallet/Microservices/Binaries/lin64/hwi fixed it for me - maybe add it to 'For Linux users'?

[adamPetho]

+1, also #7495 fixes it for the next release.