Samourai Wallet developers don’t believe you should trust their wallet platform.
“Users should look at our reputation thus far and make a judgement as to if we are honest and trustworthy, but at the end of the day code doesn’t lie, we have produced the code, anyone can go take a look, can comment, can suggest, can criticize, can fork,” a developer, who goes by ‘SW’, told CCN . Bitcoiners should only trust one person when it comes to storing their bitcoin – themselves. Samourai formally started development in February 2015 with the goal of filling a major void in the Bitcoin wallet space: privacy centric wallets. “From day one it was established that we would eventually be an open source project,” SW said. “I mean, who in their right mind would trust a closed source wallet?”
Samourai also decided it would release a very early minimum viable product, “Alpha 1”, and let user feedback shape the future of the product.
“Due to these decisions and the fact we developed several novel features unseen in any other bitcoin wallet we made the strategic decision to delay immediate open-sourcing to give us a leg-up in the very competitive wallet space,” SW explained. “Now about one year later our Alpha user group is about 1000 strong, very passionate and communicative, and our product is close to being ready for public launch. We felt it was time to make good on our promise and give back to the community in the form of-open source software.”
On March 30, 2016, Samourai open-sourced all code for Samourai and Sentinel, as well was the first implementation of BIP47 Reusable Payment Codes.
“Everything we have released and published under UNLICENSE, which donates the code to the public domain,” according to SW. “Samourai hope this encourages other wallets to implement BIP47.” […]
