When creating a wallet on Samourai, you are *encouraged* to connect to your own node first. If you do that, they will *never* have your xpub.
The whirlpool coordinator does not take an xpub, that’s just the backing server to Samourai wallet that does. Which is why you should use your own.
The coordinator is blinded and only knows of the individual UTXOS that are being published as available to mix, and by default samourai wallet changes Tor identities after each UTXO that is mixed, so that even IP addresses aren’t linked.
My recommendation is to always run your own node so you don’t have to trust anyone, that includes samourai.
finch ☦️ /
npub1u5…mdu5e
2023-03-14 02:52:08
in reply to nevent1q…rq3d
Author Public Key
npub1u5tha063x5cv95yjgzpmvjm74htlhp00eslym764cuafynysrjnshmdu5ePublished at
2023-03-14 02:52:08Event JSON
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"content": "When creating a wallet on Samourai, you are *encouraged* to connect to your own node first. If you do that, they will *never* have your xpub. \n\nThe whirlpool coordinator does not take an xpub, that’s just the backing server to Samourai wallet that does. Which is why you should use your own. \n\nThe coordinator is blinded and only knows of the individual UTXOS that are being published as available to mix, and by default samourai wallet changes Tor identities after each UTXO that is mixed, so that even IP addresses aren’t linked. \n\nMy recommendation is to always run your own node so you don’t have to trust anyone, that includes samourai.",
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}