User:Pngdeity/Dark Wallet

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 * Wikilink this article on Cryptocurrency tumbler
 * is the Alpha release video by Defense Distributed and is license CC-BY-SA, i.e. can be used on Wikipedia ->
 * See Talk:Amir Taaki for some relevant Wikiprojects
 * Redirect unSYSTEM to this article?
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20131103175741/http://www.indiegogo.com:80/projects/bitcoin-dark-wallet

Dark Wallet is a software application designed to enhance the anonymity of Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It was developed by unSYSTEM, a group of activist developers including Amir Taaki and Vitalik Buterin. The alpha release came on and the last version release came on

In 2013, Wilson, along with Amir Taaki, began work on a wallet for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin called Dark Wallet, a project by which he planned to help anonymize financial transactions. He appeared on behalf of the Dark Wallet project at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas in 2014.

24 Sept 2013 https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/dark-wallet-a-radical-way-to-bitcoin

Discussion between Taaki and Wilson began in Berlin in July of 2013 with their intention to have the same political influence as Wilson's previous project, The Liberator pistol quote "use technology to remove government intervention from his life, and from the lives of like-minded people."

Dark Wallet should be free to use

Dark wallet makes it easier for non-tech people

Made for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, the software is a browser extension for either Firefox or Chrome

Wilson handles crowdfunding and project management.

unSYSTEM is a group of developers based in Calafou, an anarchist compound outside of Barcelona. Taaki writes most of the code, and the internationally based development teams also includes Vitalik Buterin

31 Oct 2013 https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/31/darkwallet-aims-to-be-the-anarchists-bitcoin-app-of-choice/?sh=66f596f84cad

1 Nov 2013 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/shedding-light-on-the-dark-wallet-1383357523

Dark Wallet has a third developer: CoinPunk

Buterin also spells it as unSYSTEM

"built-in trustless mixing" -> No public information is strictly required to send transactions using the Bitcoin blockchain, but everything is available in perpetuity

Blockchain.info also ran a centralized mixing service during the development of Dark Wallet,

Gregory Martin developed CoinJoin, Taaki and Pablo Martin created the "first truly practical implementation" of the protocol

Dark Wallet also intends to allow an authentication scheme where websites or vendors can optionally verify repeated transaction by the same wallet, with the purpose of consumer protection

4 Dec 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131225084137/http://motherboard.vice.com:80/en_ca/blog/the-man-who-prints-guns-wants-to-be-our-bitcoin-ethicist

14 Dec 2013 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/sunday-review/the-bitcoin-ideology.html?_r=0

"“We see this as part of the total sublation of the state,” said Cody Wilson, Dark Wallet’s director, who gained fame earlier this year when he published online the blueprints to a pistol that could be manufactured with a 3-D printer. “I know I sound like some kind of weird Jehovah’s Witness, but we’ve only just begun. We admit that we are ideologues.”"

18 April 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fhBBipU3w "Happiness is a 3D-printed gun"

Cody Wilson interview with Reason, see 19:50

24 April 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFopiRaXwQ

Release date of 1 May 2014

29 April 2014 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-34740

Total of $100,000 raised in Bitcoin and fiat, but that had decreased to $65,000 to $75,000 after the price of Bitcoin went down

29 April 2014 https://www.wired.com/2014/04/dark-wallet/

The project was announced in October of 2013 with a campaign on IndieGoGo, which raised $50,000 in USD and tens of thousands in Bitcoin

In March of 2014, Wilson described it at a MOMA debate: "It's just money laundering software."

The software as described is not illegal per say.

Wilson stated he intends the software to be used for illegal purchases

Dark Wallet "integrates laundering by default" by having every transaction (incoming or outgoing) use CoinJoin
 * Outgoing transactions are always sent in pairs
 * Incoming transactions are facilitated with stealth addresses - hashes of the intended address

The name is in reference to "going dark" - Something the FBI has warned about in reference to their inability to listen in on communication that is encrypted -> See also Crypto Wars

30 April 2014 https://www.vice.com/en/article/ypwpdk/dark-wallet-is-here-to-return-bitcoin-to-its-radical-cypherpunk-roots

Wilson "explained that Dark Wallet is a way to fight back against “what Bitcoin has been allowed to become.""

Drawn comparison to Satoshi Nakamoto's original sentiment with Bitcoin, albeit less extreme

"Liberty is a dangerous thing"

1 May 2014 https://www.networkworld.com/article/2176540/dark-wallet-promises-anonymity-for-bitcoin-transactions.html

"A similar technology called Shared Coin was implemented last November in the Bitcoin wallet on Blockchain.info. The site says the feature allows users to "route transactions through a shared wallet breaking the chain of transactions." However, Dark Wallet offers anonymous transactions by default."

6 May 2014 https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2014/05/06/bitcoin-dark-money-dark-wallet

On point interview with Wilson, Greenberg, and a DHS guy

22 May 2014 https://www.csoonline.com/article/2157426/dark-wallet-threat-or-no-threat.html

Paywalled

26 May 2014 https://coinjoint.info/report-frontlines-dark-wallet-alpha-testing/

7 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123222029/https://news.sky.com/story/1296508/global-jihad-could-be-funded-with-bitcoin

11 July 2014 https://www.wired.com/2014/07/inside-dark-wallet/

Software released on "May Day, every anarchist’s favorite holiday," Specifies that the software was released early in the morning on May 1st

"Dark Wallet isn’t necessarily illegal."

Dark Wallet userbase already in the thousands during development

unSystem is group of around a dozen designers and coders including a guy identified as Pablo Martinez in the article, but I think Greenberg made a mistake. He meant Pablo Martin

Dark Wallet also has a menacing name because it is trying to reclaim the word as something good

Peter Todd -> "Chief scientist of the Dark Wallet project"

https://alkhilafaharidat.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/btcedit-21.pdf -> The ISIS blog

19 Sept 2014 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29283124

Amir Taaki is "one of the key programmers"

The Islamic State put out a blog post specifically mentioning the software as useful for laundering money.

20 Sep 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_9o63E_wjk BBC Click

8 Oct 2014 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-technology-worth-nothing-interview-dark-wallet-front-man-amir-taaki-1412722833

4 Nov 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141112101605/http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2014/11/04/cody-wilson-to-run-for-bitcoin-foundation-board.html?page=all

Calls Dark Wallet a "bitcoin storage technology"

Dark Wallet was in alpha at the time of writing

2 June 2015 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dark_Net/MGw5BgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Pablo was responsible for front end work on the site, and he worked on it while at Calafou (pg 87)

Make bitcoin "more anonymous and more trustworthy" pg 95

Taaki left Calafou in 2014 pg 109

6 Oct 2015 https://www.acfeinsights.com/acfe-insights/tag/bitcoin+fog

Includes a sample scenario where the software would be used

27 Jan 2016 https://news.bitcoin.com/darkwallet-development-resumes-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-lead-developer-returns-hiatus/

6 Aug 2016 https://github.com/darkwallet/darkwallet

Release info

5 Dec 2017 https://www.amazon.com/New-Radical-Cody-Wilson/dp/B077W1PTJH

The Islamic State put out a blog post specifically mentioning the software as useful for laundering money.

25 Feb 2020 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/coinjoins-first-steps-how-dark-wallet-paved-the-way-for-a-more-private-bitcoin

Gregory Martin created CoinJoin

The project had over 1,000 unique donors

"Bitcoin Magazine’s founder and then-editor-in-chief Mihai Alisie" was a member of unSYSTEM

Pablo Martin disappeared for a bit but has since reunited with Taaki to work on a school in London

The second funding round was not as successful.

24 June 2021 https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dark-wallet.asp See WP:RSP

23 July 2021 https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2021/04/bitcoin-future-money-or-speculative-bubble

Mentions how Dark Wallet was praised by Islamic terror groups

Undated https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016SC0223&from=GA

This document is a primary source, but it was mentioned in the new radical between -20 and -13 minutes.

Undated https://krypt3ia.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/btcedit-21.pdf https://archive.ph/AaaLd

This is the document published by someone associated with terrorists that mentions Dark Wallet as being super great for terrorist financing.

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/Emerging-Terrorist-Financing-Risks.pdf