Samourai Wallet Launches New Privacy Feature Ricochet
The developers of the privacy-centric bitcoin wallet, Samourai, have announced a new feature that claims to “improve fungibility and frustrate blockchain spies.” Samourai Unveils a Premium Bitcoin Transaction Hop Service. Launched in the spring 2015, the creators of the Samourai bitcoin wallet have been staunch advocates of bitcoin privacy and....
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Samourai Wallet developers don’t believe you should trust their wallet platform. “Users should look at our reputation thus far and make a judgement as to if we are honest and trustworthy, but at the end of the day code doesn’t lie, we have produced the code, anyone can go take a look, can comment, can suggest, can criticize, can fork,” a developer, who goes by ‘SW’, told CCN. Bitcoiners should only trust one person when it comes to storing their bitcoin – themselves. Samourai formally started development in February 2015 with the goal of filling a major void in the Bitcoin wallet space:....
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