Is "Samourai wallet" really the alternative to go to? I remember it also having some controversy. A small one was that it used to send (maybe it still does) user's xpubs to their servers whereas it only needs to send the address(es) that need be updated.
They harassed G. Maxwell for pointing it out too
refThey've apparently harassed others too
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In any case I believe both Wasabi and Samourai wallets are unpopular and unreveiwed softwares (despite what it may look like from their community). They both have some degree of shadiness which is not something you want in a privacy oriented software!
Samourai Wallet is not a good alternative to Wasabi Wallet and never has been because:
1) Samourai Wallet knows everything about your transactions since all the addresses and public keys go through their server. If you connect to their trusted node, it only gives you a false sense of security and privacy due to the fact that everything is already exposed to their server, and their node foes nothing but simply relaying transactions. I think they can easily demix you because they will know your incoming and outgoing transactions. [1]
2) They constantly lie about their wallet being reproducible while in fact, it is not, which was checked and proved many times. In my opinion, if it is not reproducible, it is closed-sourced and probably malicious. [2]
3) Their sockpuppets are attacking Giacomo Zucco just for the fact that when talking about CoinJoin implementations in his famous article regarding privacy, he put Samourai after Wasabi and JoinMarket. Clearly, he should have mentioned it first to not offend and hurt feelings of Samourai developers! [3][4]
[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9r9344/comment/e8fm1v8/[2]
https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.samourai.wallet/[3]
https://t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2615?comment=14516[4]
https://giacomozucco.com/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-and-privacy-part-1-a-match-made-in-the-whitepaper