Bitok Arena is a public competition — every address and every amount on the leaderboard is visible to anyone with a block explorer. Wasabi Wallet is a privacy tool — its CoinJoin implementation is designed to break the transaction history link between your BTC and its origin. These two facts coexist without contradiction, and understanding why reveals something important about what blockchain privacy actually means in practice.
Privacy on Bitcoin is about your history, not your presence. You can compete publicly with an address while keeping the trail of where your BTC came from entirely your own business.
Wasabi users who want to participate in a live on-chain competition do not have to choose between privacy and participation. The two work together at different layers of the same transaction history.
What Wasabi Wallet Is and What CoinJoin Does
Wasabi Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin wallet built specifically around privacy. Its core feature is a CoinJoin implementation called WabiSabi: a protocol that allows multiple users to combine their Bitcoin transactions into a single joint transaction, making it significantly harder for blockchain analytics tools to trace which input corresponds to which output. The result is that your BTC arrives in your wallet with a substantially weaker link to its origin history.
CoinJoin does not create new Bitcoin or change how much you have. It restructures the transaction graph. After a successful CoinJoin, the blockchain record shows a complex multi-party transaction rather than a clean line from address A to address B. The BTC is still entirely yours, controlled by your private key, ready to be sent anywhere — including to a competition round.
The important point for competition purposes is that CoinJoin does not change your address — it changes what can be inferred about your address. Your bc1 address remains yours, controlled by your private key, fully capable of signing transactions, holding a position on a leaderboard, and receiving prize payouts. The address is public when you compete. The history behind it is your own.
Sending from Wasabi to the Competition
Open Wasabi Wallet and navigate to the Send tab. Select the coins you want to use for the competition entry — Wasabi presents individual UTXOs so you can choose which ones participate in each transaction. Enter the master wallet address shown on the platform as the destination, set the amount, and confirm with your password. Wasabi broadcasts the signed transaction to the Bitcoin network.
For the competition, there is one consideration specific to Wasabi: coin selection. Wasabi allows you to choose which UTXOs to spend, and spending a CoinJoin output in isolation from non-CoinJoin outputs maintains your privacy profile better than mixing them. If privacy is a priority, send from coins that went through a recent CoinJoin. The competition outcome is identical either way — the key is that the address belongs to you.
Wasabi gives you control over which part of your Bitcoin history is linked to each transaction. Competing on a public leaderboard is a choice about presence, not about history. You choose to be visible today. What you did before remains yours to decide.
Once the transaction confirms on the Bitcoin network, your address appears on the leaderboard with the amount committed. If you finish in the top three, the prize is paid directly to that same Wasabi-controlled address — on-chain, to the key you hold, with no intermediary involved in the payout.