
CD76: DEBATE: Are the tradeoffs of Samourai Wallet's light client mode a benefit to users?
Citadel Dispatch
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How to Interact With the Bitcoin Network
A question in the matrix chat about whether people should trust 'samurai' with their privacy. If you're using someone else's node, you're trusting them with some elements of your privacy. Best practice in Bitcoin is to not reuse addresses. But if samurai were bad actors and they were providing a service to people that were looking specifically for privacy because they wanted to do something illicit or, you know, as a human right. The fact that that can happen is why we need these practices in the first place.
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