Your wallet contains two different Balance screens.
The Deposit Account balance screen opens when you launch Samourai Wallet and is considered your default account. The balance at the top of the screen should match the balance of the wallet minus any funds mixed or pending mixing, or any outputs marked as "Unspendable".
The second account with a balance screen is the Postmix account. Tap the Samourai icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen to quickly access this account view.
Press the button in the toolbar
Press the button in the toolbar
Press the ⋮ button in the toolbar
Tap the blue floating action button (FAB) on the Balance screen to open the main interaction menu of your wallet.
The FAB is contextual to the Account you are currently interacting with. If you are on the Deposit Account you will see the full list of possible interactions. If you are on the Post-mix Account then you will only see the Send interaction.
Pressing this green Receive button will open the receive screen.
Pressing this red Send button will open the send screen.
Pressing this purple PayNyms button will open the PayNym screen.
Pressing this blue Whirlpool button will open the Whirlpool screen.
Your wallet contains an infinite amount of bitcoin addresses that get used once and then are archived. This means your bitcoin address will change all the time, this is not cause for alarm, consider your addresses as 'one-time-use' and disposable. While it is possible to reuse addresses more than once it is strongly discouraged.
Your wallet doesn't reuse addresses, this is a strategy to help protect your privacy on the blockchain.
BTC
or sats
If you are having problems with the default address Samourai provides, try changing the address type to
segwit compatibility
If you are participating in a STONEWALLx2 or Stowaway transaction with a friend they will ask you to go to "receive online cahoots" to begin the process. This is how you do it.
By default your wallet will attempt to compose the best transaction for maximizing your privacy on the blockchain. Depending on the number of available unspent outputs in your wallet at any given time your default transactions will differ in composition.
To
field and possibly the amount
field.To
field with the PayNym contact you are sending to.Ricochet defends against bitcoin blacklists by adding additional decoy transactions between the initial send and eventual recipient.
You should consider using Ricochet when sending to Bitcoin Exchanges, and other companies that are known to close accounts and lock funds.
Add Final Destination And Amount
To
field.Toggle Ricochet
Optionally Enable Staggered Delivery
0.001 BTC
plus miner feesThe fee slider features three different priority 'profiles', and these are based on how quickly you need the transaction to be added to a block.
sat/byte
STONEWALL is a unique way of building transactions that increases the deniability of the link between sender and recipient of a transaction. A STONEWALL is designed to improve your privacy on the blockchain by introducing a large element of doubt and uncertainty into the datasets of blockchain analysis platforms.
There will be times when it is not possible for the wallet to compose a STONEWALL, if this is the case, the STONEWALL option will be disabled.
If Ricochet was enabled in the previous step then STONEWALL will not be available.
It is recommended you leave STONEWALL enabled if possible.
A PayNym is a permanent and reusable code that you can share with anyone. It is tied to your secret words. It looks similar to a bitcoin address but it is longer and starts with 'PM8T'. Here is an example:-
PM8TJMAFUAKXAhjcw2symZVJBZXwDTtjJz5NiEnBSj7ryYvwohy6R9Ee4BpugTWvyiTMT29qzbmXtFTZ3WsEgqW3rbK8KttuxjdX3dcnxRKP18TMi1F7
Payment Codes in Samourai are the first implementation of the BIP47 Proposal by the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project
Unlike a static bitcoin address you can share your PayNym publicly without revealing your entire balance or transaction history. Anyone with Samourai Wallet or any wallet that follows the BIP47 proposal can connect to your payment code and generate private bitcoin addresses on demand for sending bitcoin to your wallet.
Just like others can follow your PayNym you can also follow others as well.
Once you have a mutal following with a PayNym you can use them as a collaborator in Cahoots transactions
If you have the PayNym name (eg;+samouraiwallet
) you can visit the public directory page
https://paynym.is/+samouraiwallet to view a web profile for this PayNym.
PayNym.is/+botname
page in your mobile browser to automatically open the PayNym profile in your walletFor direct payments to another PayNym (without using cahoots transactions), after following you must also 'Connect'. This connection transaction is what facilitates the information sharing between the two wallets and enables them to generate their private Bitcoin addresses. Connecting to a PayNym can be useful for users with whom you plan to make repeat 'regular type' payments to.
0.00015 BTC
or 15,000 sats
plus miner feesWhirlpool mathematically disassociates the ownership of inputs to outputs in a given bitcoin transaction and deterministically breaks all prior history of an output with future activity. This is to increase the privacy of the users involved, protect against financial surveillance, and to increase the fungibility of the Bitcoin network as a whole.
Press the button in the toolbar
Press the button in the toolbar
Press the button in the toolbar
low
, normal
, or high
. This will impact the total fees paid for the initial mix transaction.The review screen shows a few details
Additionally there are details regarding the total fees to review
Decide what you want to do with the Toxic Change output (unmixed)
satoshi/byte
satoshi
Press the button in the toolbar
The most private way to back your Samourai Wallet is with your own Dojo. There are many ways to get your own Dojo, each implementation will have marginally different connection steps but the steps within the wallet will be identical.
Skip this step if you are starting with a new Samourai Wallet
If you have followed the above steps and do not see a balance, do not be alarmed! You simply need to rescan your wallet's public keys to tell your Dojo about the wallet you control.
Stealth Mode allows you to hide the Samourai Wallet app icon on your device's home screen. Instead of the Samourai Wallet icon, you can choose from four decoy apps. This provides protection from physical searches of your device.
Choose from the following:
Stealth Mode will only be enabled by exiting the app in the proper fashion. This allows you to be able to use Samourai when multi-tasking without Stealth Mode being enabled by accident.
Each stealth/decoy app is disabled using a different method. First open the decoy app, then:
Note 1: The default location is "United States Chicago". Within the Stealth Mode settings, it is possible to change the VPN location which is selected to disable Stealth Mode.
Note 2: The Edge VPN app is not a functioning VPN.