The Samourai Bitcoin wallet state the launch of a general upgrade of its interface and also gives some hints on upcoming features to expect in 2019. Latest announcement confirm that developers are working on a hardware device to access your full node via TOR anonymity service. It’s name is Dojo and it includes a special software integrated to work with.
About Samourai
As a project which aims for anonymous transactions, the team behind it invest resources mostly in developing privacy software. They have launched the Samourai wallet in 2015 as an open source code to be readable and editable for any reasons by everyone. Developers of Samourai are the first to ever create an offline transaction option while supporting the SegWit.
“We’re excited to launch our updated http://samouraiwallet.com today. We have a brand new look to better tie in with the new android UI being rolled out, expanded information on all of our current features and have begun to introduce a few upcoming features and products as well.”
Samourai Insights
As one of the first wallets supporting SegWit and all its features such as an offline mode for cold storage, called TxTenna, smart miner functionality, which ensure miners they aren’t overpaying for the quickly broadcasting of their transactions, and also Stonewall – a security measure against address gathering.
Especially for Android users, there’s an OpenDime support to read information from a hardware USB wallet without the need of a private credentials.
What’s interesting about their earlier September update – fiat currencies were disabled from the platform and BTC left the Samurai’s native token.
The Dojo Node
The latest announcement of Samourai about their Dojo device to be released at the beginning of 2019 is a major evidence of their development.
It’s designed to propose a user-friendly software to operate with your full node. The most interesting above all it’s its hardware configuration which might serve your Samourai wallet as a cold storage machine. What’s more important is that If the team decides to support the Lightning Network, there won’t be a need of another device, but just the installation of a patch for the Dojo software.