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So I read sparrow was removing its privacy features after the samurai guys got busted but now that they have been released did it change course on that?
I haven't updated the wallet since the rollback of features but would like to update it or go to a new wallet soon.
I figure your the guy to ask as I seem to see alot of conflicting info ot there and to be honest I just don't have the energy to do my own research these days.
*Been listening to Sabbath non stop since I posted that Hand of Doom link, I forgot how Unbelievably awesome Masters of Reality is and am hooked again!
Yeah, the whirlpool stuff is gone out of Sparrow. They were actually using Samurai's Whirlpool server, so when it was seized, it quit working anyway, and then Craig Raw, I think, removed the code that connected to that, so it's just not in the software anymore.
And I would doubt that older versions of Sparrow would be able to do anything even though the menu items are probably still there. It won't be able to connect to those servers. And I don't know if Ashigaru has spun up any tor-based whirlpool servers or anything. I don't know.
I actually never really did any coin joins, mainly because I was always worried that I would end up with something that though not technically tainted would show signs of having been mixed and then could be problematic in the future. I have no idea if there's any merit to that line of thought or not, but I just never did it.
There are still the other privacy aspects that Sparrow includes, like the Paynym implementation. And you can still do the simulated two-person coin-join-looking transactions that are not using a third party server, but do things that are confusing with UTXOs that kind of throw heuristics into fits. I don't think it's super ironclad privacy, but combined with other things can certainly help.
I do think Sparrow is still the ultimate power user, Swiss Army Knife, bitcoin wallet.
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So I read sparrow was removing its privacy features after the samurai guys got busted but now that they have been released did it change course on that?
I haven't updated the wallet since the rollback of features but would like to update it or go to a new wallet soon.
I figure your the guy to ask as I seem to see alot of conflicting info ot there and to be honest I just don't have the energy to do my own research these days.
*Been listening to Sabbath non stop since I posted that Hand of Doom link, I forgot how Unbelievably awesome Masters of Reality is and am hooked again!
Yeah, the whirlpool stuff is gone out of Sparrow. They were actually using Samurai's Whirlpool server, so when it was seized, it quit working anyway, and then Craig Raw, I think, removed the code that connected to that, so it's just not in the software anymore.
And I would doubt that older versions of Sparrow would be able to do anything even though the menu items are probably still there. It won't be able to connect to those servers. And I don't know if Ashigaru has spun up any tor-based whirlpool servers or anything. I don't know.
I actually never really did any coin joins, mainly because I was always worried that I would end up with something that though not technically tainted would show signs of having been mixed and then could be problematic in the future. I have no idea if there's any merit to that line of thought or not, but I just never did it.
There are still the other privacy aspects that Sparrow includes, like the Paynym implementation. And you can still do the simulated two-person coin-join-looking transactions that are not using a third party server, but do things that are confusing with UTXOs that kind of throw heuristics into fits. I don't think it's super ironclad privacy, but combined with other things can certainly help.
I do think Sparrow is still the ultimate power user, Swiss Army Knife, bitcoin wallet.