Testing btcpay zap integration, pls zap 🙏
Hopefully they open source Keeper
Complete and utter nonsense
Sooooo good
Maybe learn Java/Kotlin? Could do desktop cross platform as well as Android
Are you wanting to work on mobile? Cross platform? Desktop? Web? That should help narrow things down a bit
Let's play through your scenario and assume they are a bad actor.
- I initiate a mix of 2M sats in the 1M sat pool
- My random Tor IP is tagged on both premix outputs
- As a result, each one of those two mixed outputs are tagged as one user with the originating Tor IP
- After each one of those outputs are mixed, they now have a 1 in 5 chance of knowing which output I am.
- To demix me here, they'd need to know who the other 4 outputs belong to. Even only knowing 3 of the 5 outputs means that they have a 1 in 2 chance of knowing which output belongs to me.
- This becomes exponentially difficult to follow f I remix 2, 3, 4 or more times.
- Whirlpool's design makes it extremely difficult to sibyl attack it, by charging fees for all new incoming liquidity.
Do you see how ridiculous your claim is, given how many Whirlpool users run their own node?
The promise of Whirlpool is on-chain privacy. It's verifiably the most private way of using bitcoin today. There is no second best alternative. From a privacy perspective, the one thing you rightfully point out is that the coordinator is currently centralized, so you have to trust they're running the same code that they've published.
In a few months, you will be able to run your own coordinator and gain access to the same liquidity pool as everyone else, thus eliminating this as a concern.
New Whirlpool partner entering testnet pools tomorrow. Expect to see more FUD from Wasabi paid shills as they become more desparate to plug the holes in their sinking ship.
If I am a Sparrow Wallet user who using Whirlpool to break on-chain deterministic links, backed by my own own node, running a Tor proxy (that switches identities after ever every mix), how would Samourai demix me?
Answer: it wouldn't be possible, even if they were running a malicious coordinator. They wouldn't have enough information.
The only time users have to trust that Samourai is not a bad actor is if they are using Whirlpool + Samourai Wallet with SW team's node, which they recommend against if you are able to run your own node.
Tools like whirlpool that Samourai have built give you objectively better on-chain privacy. The privacy gains are calculable, no need to “trust” them. Run your own dojo, or use Sparrow wallet and you’re fine.
The blinded coordinator is FOSS, and decentralized coordinator (multiple coordinators with a shared liquidity pool) coming sometime this year.
The on-chain data doesn’t lie. You get strong on-chain privacy when you use Whirlpool to break 100% of deterministic links. To say you get no privacy from Samourai tools is complete and utter nonsense.
Used it many times over the past 2 years with zero issues. Plan on having it for many more!
I’ve got the identical machine. I love it
Happy Resurrection Day, fam.
He is risen!
Elon seems to be worried about competition 👀
Once Lightning can be used privately they are going to integrate it.