Ngl, this is a huge punch in the gut, I'm legit sad. If whirlpool does not come back up, it's a huge L for privacy on bitcoin. Maybe app-level privacy really is not enough.
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And they just started to launch their decentralized coordinator stuff. 🫤
Maybe that motivated the DoJ move, who knows...
Not only for privacy, but samourai is still the only wallet that works for android.
All other wallets have a lot of tor issues, dont load deep wallets, etc
Tbf, wallet still works if you use your own dojo
yes, only whirpoll side does not work, I don't get why people migrating or changing shit unless one used their backend and relied on somebody else' node. like using VPN which is relying on someonrelses computer.
Soroban also does not work. Postmix tools work "manually"
Postmix stonewallx2 manually if collabirator physically present or can send over encrypted message soroban payload
but regular stonewall or stowaway still works because it uses your own set of utxos in the postmix derivation instead of with collaborators in case is stonewallx2
It isn't. 😥
Who has pulled code.samourai.io lately? It's a call to arms to keep local copies of all freedom tech repositories
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Need to get hold of the latest whirlpool cli which includes soroban decentralisation. I hadn't gotten around to updating my whirlpool dojo so I'm out in the cold for now as far as coinjoin is concerned :P
Either way, Samourai managed to get Soroban whirlpool out in the wild just before this happened, so it's just a case of finding a way in and spreading the code.
I'm running soroban whirlpool-cli. It does not work because the only coordinator got taken down.
It happened just before they tested multiple coordinators (whackamole).
Crap, I was under the impression Sparrow Wallet and some other were setting up new coordinators, but I just saw now Sparrow have also removed whirlpool for their wallet.
Really unfortunate timing, but probably not a coincidence.