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Privacy improvements for bitcoin with @Samouraiwallet

Ungovernable Misfits

CHAPTER

The First Version of Stealth Mode Was Paired With Remote Wipe

The first version of stealth mode was actually paired with a second removed functionality, sadly removed by Google. The use case of this was closer to the robbing situation where your phone is stolen from you and you realize it. One protection is that it's in stealth mode, so they can't see it easily. But you want to get rid of that wallet. You could send a remote SMS command to your phone that would actually delete the wallet. It was there for a while until, I think, like, 2018 or something. Who fucked that up then? Google? Yeah, yeah, fuck's sake. We need to be taken out.

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