The Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet has joined the Tor Project Membership programme, supporting the nonprofit with a $50,000 donation. The project team pledged to donate on an annual basis.
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We are proud to have joined the @torproject as Vidalia Onion members. We make tremendous use of the open source software maintained by the project and are very pleased to pledge on-going support for the important work they dohttps://t.co/gw9FwyIKHV
— Samourai Wallet (@SamouraiWallet) September 22, 2021
\”All free open-source software released by Samourai actively uses Tor Project technologies and developments. Today we are proud to announce that we can support the project’s work by donating $50,000 and join it as a Vidalia Onion member,\” the statement said.
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According to Tor Project, Membership programme members enjoy three \”special benefits\”:
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- Access to the Onion Advisors group, which assists with integrating the Tor system;
- Participation in exclusive meetings with the Tor Project team;
- Public promotion of the member.
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The programme provides three membership levels. The most senior, Shallot Onion, are available to those pledging at least $100,000 per year; Vidalia Onion — from $50,000 per year; Green Onion — from $10,000 to $49,999.
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In addition to Samourai Wallet, Vidalia Onion status is also held by Avast antivirus software developer, analytics company Team Cymru and VPN service Mullvad.
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Samourai Wallet uses CoinJoin technology, and the ZeroLink protocol, which allows the source and destination of each transferred coin to be hidden from third parties.
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In 2020, Europol said that the growing popularity of Samourai Wallet significantly hinders investigations into dark-net activity.
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