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Christ is King. Freedom. Privacy. #FreeSamourai

If you haven't already, I would urge you to try Ashigaru Wallet. It is a fork of Samurai Wallet that requires your own Dojo instance to connect to.

It has many of thesamee privacy enhancing spending tools (Paynyms, Stonewallx2, Ricochet) with the exception of whirlpool.

If you don't run your own Dojo, there is a list of nodes from the community you can choose from to connect to at dojobay.pw

#FreeSamourai

Replying to Avatar Zaikaboy

For those that are interested...

Ashigaru is a "fork" of Samourai wallet. It has been up and running quite a while and is even better than Samourai. You can download it here, https://ashigaru.rs/ but you will need TOR to do so.

You will also need a dojo. You can run your own, which is preferable, on a server like #Start9 or even #Umbrel. If you don't have your own you can use someone else's. A friend you trust is next or you can look here https://dojobay.pw/

The reason I'm writing this is... If you have an old phone that you don't use, download Ashigaru on that. Then download Sentinel watch only wallet on your daily driver phone, here https://github.com/wanderingking072/sentinel-android/releases.

Sentinal is a fantastic watch only wallet from the same arena as Ashigaru. You can then create your TXs on your Ashigaru wallet and sign it, whilst your phone is in airplane mode. It can't be sent as you are not online, safe from predictors. It can create a QR code which your Sentinel Watch Only wallet can scan and send.

Why? Well apart from being probably the most privacy minded wallet out there, you have just used your old phone as a seed signer. Airgapped. Free.

Thank me later

#FreeSamourai

Thought of the week:

KYC is the illicit activity. Not giving up KYC info and not giving up custody are hills worth dying on.

KYC is an attack on bitcoin's fungibility. If you can get censored/confiscated at on/off ramps due to the history of your utxo, is bitcoin effective as peer to peer digital cash?

If your suggestion is only transact peer to peer, i think this is a logical solution. However, if you buy/sell p2p and you or your peer is at risk of having those funds censored or confiscated at on/off ramps due to the history of your utxo, is this effective as peer to peer digital cash?

How do we shield ourselves and our peer from the history of the utxos that are completely irrelevant to us or them?

This is a consistent concern of mine and not sure how to rectify this obvious issue. I am sure there are a handful of different ways to obfuscate via LN or multiple hops spaced out before going onto an exchange. But it should not be such a massive hurdle.

Feel free to tell me I'm wrong or paranoid or a doomer in the comments.

KYC is an attack on bitcoin.

People who have been in bitcoin for an extended period of time should make the extra effort to buy P2P and reject using KYC exchanges.

Replying to Avatar ODELL

When I woke up this morning, I wanted to text all the doubters in my life from the past four years. I think i finally realized how difficult the stay humble part is going to be.