Samourai

Samourai Wallet’s latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users and opening the door for more privacy-focused integrations.

The privacy restrictions on Samourai’s wallet will only affect the new version available on Google Play.

“Privacy is essential for Bitcoin. Ideally we want to screw up [blockchain] analysis so badly, that they can’t even make it.”

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Using a $27 entry level, Android smartphone and four goTennas, Rigel Walshe successfully sent a bitcoin transaction without access to the internet.

In partnership with Samourai, Brooklyn-based goTenna has launched TxTenna, a mobile app that allows users to send bitcoin without an internet connection.

Samourai Wallet is collaborating with goTenna, a Brooklyn-based company specializing in off-grid communications, to produce txTenna, an Android app that combines mesh networking with Bitcoin transactions. The app will allow users to pair their phones with goTenna’s portable antennas in order to broadcast transactions. goTenna produces consumer-grade hardware to facilitate mesh networking — a concept […]

Ádám “nopara73” Ficsór, HiddenWallet developer and TumbleBit contributor, and “TDevD,” the pseudonymous Samourai wallet developer, are joining forces on a new privacy project: ZeroLink. ZeroLink is set to realize a trustless mixing scheme first proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor Gregory Maxwell years ago — but one that hasn’t been realized thus far. According Ficsór, the […]

Bitcoin Afterburner allows users of many different bitcoin wallets to boost transactions that have become stuck due to low fees.