Will the Tor feature stays natively integrated in the upcoming Segwit wallet? There was a debate around the feasibility of keeping this wallet option with the coming upgrades.
I just had an idea that I want to share about this. What about implementing Dandelion technology in the wallet? I think it's relatively straightforward to implement, and with that you don't even need Tor to obfuscate the IP address associated with a transaction.
In addition to that, I suggest the Bitcoin Plus project would benefit tremendously by adding more privacy features in its future development, beyond IP address obfuscation.
The native Tor wallet is what caused most of the complications at the early stage when trying to integrate it into each part.There have been many BIPs and a lot of refactoring since we even decided to go ahead without this feature.You can still use an external client but the native integration has been removed due to too many conflicts and we would never get finished due to the amount of stages we have come through.We had the ability to use the old client with the integrated wallet up to a late stage but then it began to look like this was not going to with risk of tx failure.You will see all these changes when the repo is pushed onto github and made public.
I just had an idea that I want to share about this. What about implementing Dandelion technology in the wallet?
We are already looking at this among other things and these things are now an option due to the more vanilla type codebase we have achieved.There were a lot of overly complicated and sometimes unnescessary things thrown into what we were using and this is why we had to start from the beginning trying to hold onto what we had but this is also where we miscalculated the amount of work involved to be in a position to signal for segwit.