Dark Wallet Walkthrough

What is behind Dark Wallet, the new plug-in browser-based bitcoin wallet designed for non-technical users, and described in the New Yorker last week? The wallet is under development by Cody Wilson, who has gained notoriety as a distributor of information that can challenge traditional notions of free speech. Wilson did not respond to requests for an interview, and little is known about Dark Wallet at present, other than what is reported in the New Yorker. The system will be designed as a wallet for mainstream users, used as a plug-in for Chrome and Firefox browsers, on Windows, Mac, and....

A crowdfunding page has been launched for the anarchic Dark Wallet project. Described on the indiegogo crowdfunding page as a "light browser wallet relying on an independent bitcoin implementation with out-of-the-box security and privacy features", Dark Wallet is scheduled for release in early 2014. The campaign launched yesterday (31st October) and has already reached over 40% of its goal to raise $50,000 for the development of Dark Wallet. Those involved in the project include Amir Taaki, developer of Libbitcoin. Mihai Alisie, editor in chief at Bitcoin Magazine; and Cody Wilson, who is....

May Day, May Day, it's about to get dark. Dark Wallet (Alpha), the bitcoin wallet software that uses the power of encryption and technology of CoinJoin, came out today. The legality of coin mixing services is still unclear, and the fact that some coin mixing services go by names like 'The Bitcoin Laundry' and 'BitLaundry' does not bode well in the regulatory spotlight. Although, one can argue the right to financial privacy because bitcoin is only pseudo-anonymous. I took my questions to computer security expert, Kristov Atlas, author of Anonymous Bitcoin, to see what he thought. "You've....

The Dark Wallet Alpha release is slated for May Day. Late 4/24/14, Dark Wallet unveiled a strange promotional video for the upcoming Dark Wallet Alpha with release date slated for May Day. “Should I call it ‘Drug Market Ultra’ or ‘Death Market Revival’?” a man asks sheepishly while grasping a machine gun. Opera music plays over the company logo and a clip of President Barack Obama. The camera pans over a blue sign that reads “good luck.” For anyone with a passing familiarity of political rhetoric about the dangers of crypto-currencies, the debates over the merits of injecting Bitcoin with....

As a part of a demo campaign, decentralized crowdfunding application Lighthouse recently raised 1 BTC for the Dark Wallet Fundraiser. The platform's chief developer Mike Hearn & team started hosting this project less than a month back. Being a new company, the fundraiser initiator - codename BashCo - simply wanted to test Lighthouse out before moving further with bigger fundraising campaigns for Dark Wallet. This clearly explains why the target was kept such low as 1 BTC. Upon finalizing Round I, BashCo mentioned a minor hiccup he faced in the pledging system, which was later found to have....