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@ Leo Wandersleb
2024-04-05 16:31:16
Opinion about Samourai Wallet (android)
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Samourai has cost me many many hours due to their strong social media presence and constant ad hominem attacks. They blamed me for not being able to compile or reproduce their product instead of helping me to compile it. Given I compile wallets all the time as can be found on walletscrutiny, I doubt I lack the expertise to compile wallets but even if I did, why not show me? Not one developer other than their team themselves disagreed with my technical assessments of their product. Apart from proven scams, this is the product I trust least in the whole space.
But it's not only me. To [quote Bitcoin Core developer and absolute genius Gregory Maxwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9r9344/slp29_samourai_wallet_bitcoin_privacy_software/e8fm1v8/):
> I have seen far too much outright dishonest and extremely incompetent behaviour from Samourai to ever trust it myself.
> Samourai has very poor privacy while bragging about having good privacy: It sends your addresses all back to their server. Their "trusted node" mode doesn't change this, it just exposes your Bitcoin node to attacks completely needlessly. (Needlessly because they only use it to relay transactions, which they could do via the public P2P ports of any node, and because since they've already sent your addresses back to their server sending your transactions via something else doesn't increase your privacy.)
> If you want strong privacy then as a start you need to run a full node (and use either Bitcoin Core wallet, or run your own electrum server), preferably via tor.
> I don't doubt that they want and intend to eventually have good privacy but it seems that they're just unable to stop lying about it, even after previously being caught.
You can find many more very competent people complaining about Samourai's dishonesity and aggressive behavior or outright incompetence if not malice [here](https://nopara73.medium.com/samouraileaks-samouraidevs-sockpuppet-exposed-7ce654b92c0b), [here](https://nopara73.medium.com/samouraileaks-part-2-harassment-of-bitcoin-developers-fae3019abd2f), [here](https://nopara73.medium.com/samouraileaks-part-3-is-random-org-random-enough-35704796ae93), and [here](https://github.com/nopara73/ScamouraiWallet/). And yes, those links are to nopara, who is the founder of Wasabi wallet which targets the same audience of privacy focused users but that doesn't take away from the facts reported there.
Stay away from Scamourai!
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