What is the easiest and simplest way to protect your privacy when sending and receiving Bitcoin? #asknostr #bitcoin #privacy
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Easiest... you wrote Bitcoin, not LN Bitcoin...
I will assume you are not very tech savvy but an enthusiasts,
Base on that, here the suggestion:
1. Get yourself a Pure Server from Star9.com
2. Install Bitcoin Core from the market place
3. Install Dojo from the Users Market Place. (community registry).
https://marketplace.start9.com/dojo
4. Install in your mobile Ashigaru (fork of Samurai Wallet, the legend lives)
5. When selecting to pay use ricochet and peer to peer coinjoins...
That will be, IMO, the easiest to transact with decent privacy...
Option B:
Use Bitcoin L2 LN self custodial, meaning, run your own Node, create your own channels and maintain them, cumbersome, unreliable and a pain, but second best most private.
Option C:
Check Cake Wallet, at least has Silent Payments and PayJoin with Windows, Linux, Android and iOS option. The bad: it has go be a small wallet only to transact, no decent seed signer (hardware wallet) avaiable, they are working on it, but for now only Ledger, which is a no-no as a seed signer (worst possible reputation among hard core Bitcoiners)
Is that Samurai fork trustworthy? Isn't the Samurai infrastructure centralized and able to see who is using it?
yes it is, and Sanourai centralized? I think you are confusing the old whirlpool mixing service that Sanourai was working hard to decentralize further but didn't get to it and now Ashigaru did it fully.
I personally trust it, so it does the hard core privacy community, it is as well open source, go check the githun repo and above all, do you own research
best wishes
this is a good writeup 👍
Run your own electrum server on a Rasberry Pi with UmbrelOS and connect to it using Sparrow Wallet.