‚Jochisan is fourth #Spiral grantee working on #Fedimint.‘

Today we announced the Fedimint Web SDK!

We think it's going to be the simplest tool to build a robust, client-managed bitcoin wallet in a browser.

Give it a shot and let us know what you think!

European Court of Justice: Police may search phone for minor crimes

The European Court of Justice has ruled that police services may search the telephones of persons involved in minor crimes. EU member states must have a clear legislative framework for this and prior permission is required for non-urgent cases.

"If access to data on mobile phones is restricted to serious crimes, this could seriously limit the investigative capabilities of the authorities," the Court wrote in a press release . According to the Court, the risk of impunity for criminal offences could also increase in that case. The Court stipulates that EU Member States must have a legislative framework in place that specifies with sufficient precision when and in which cases an interference with a person's private life is legally valid, and in which cases it is not. Law enforcement agencies that wish to access data on a data subject's mobile phone must, in non-urgent cases, obtain prior consent. Such consent may be granted by a judge or by an independent administrative authority. The data subject whose data is accessed must also be informed of the grounds on which such consent was given.

The European Court of Justice is providing further clarification on a recent court case in Austria, in which a suspect's mobile phone was accessed by the police. The suspect, who was arrested after being caught with 85 grams of cannabis, had sued the police for taking his phone and attempting to search it.

I've finished comparing the released Ashigaru code with

Samourai Wallet.

I did this for my own, personal usage, but it might serve others. Feel free to add your remarks/questions, DYOR and/or wait for more reviews.

TL;DR: I found nothing wrong and plan to use it soon.

I ran a diff between this release and TDevD's commit from Apr 24th. I didn't check the code between the latest SW release and that date since I already trusted SW.

Ashigaru devs (AD) published release notes [1] and there are also the commit messages from SW commit radar [2].

SW had a fork of bitcoinj. I never had it cloned and it's possible the repository is lost :(

The library and source code are downloaded from JitPack. According to their logs [3], it was built in Mar 20th.

Unless AD are wicked and in cahoots with JitPack, it should be safe to me.

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From ExtLibJ, which is used for Stonewall, Soroban, BIP47 etc, there are no changes, except for backend URLs.

Comparison was made with noosphere888's repository [4].

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Ok, so now on to the actual review.

New features: the wallet pings an onion URL to see if there's a new version, maybe because there's no Play store and they have no social media.

Also there's a new wallet sync view.

Tor and own Dojo are now mandatory.

OXT explorer was removed. Apparently one is available only if the Dojo instance has one.

Soroban (without Joinbot) and Ricochet are back. So is PayNym, under a new directory. The connect fee has been waived.

Whirlpool removed from the GUI and also options to call SW's support.

About the new directory, I would like to file a complaint against the CEO. What the hell was that 😭😭😭🗣️🗣️🗣️

To finish the review, there were many changes due to rebranding, changing URLs, colours and addresses.

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The build is reproducible as per the instructions. I used unzip instead of apktool because it's faster and was already installed.