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CD76: DEBATE: Are the tradeoffs of Samourai Wallet's light client mode a benefit to users?

Citadel Dispatch

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Do You Trust Samurai Like Client Mode?

I'm happy to walk back from my original post on Twitter and say there are reasons to use it. I just don't want people thinking that using Tor is better than using a VPN. Like samurai like client usage is like using a VPN, but you're moving trust to something else rather than getting rid of trust which is obviously better. It would be great if we didn't have to trust samurai at all and still be able to use light nodes. That would obviously be better. And right now, there are other potential options that serve the mass amount of users,. To serve the people that can't or don't run nodes, but still need privacy. So that until there's a solution

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