This article demonstrates the easiest way to Whirlpool your bitcoin so that you can take steps to preserve the censorship-resistant and permissionless attributes of Bitcoin, demonstrating how to install and set up a new Samourai Wallet on Android.
Samourai Wallet is a mobile-first, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet.
Using Samourai Wallet in connection with your own Dojo on the RoninDojo Tanto provides you with the most privacy-conscience solution, as you are not trusting someone else’s node, you are using your own node.
Every Bitcoin wallet, be it mobile or desktop, needs to gather information about wallet balances and transaction history from a Bitcoin node; it is best practice to use your own node but it is not a requirement as many wallet developers provide publicly-accessible nodes.
Leave the option to connect to your own Dojo toggled off to use the default settings which will communicate with the Samourai Wallet Dojo node instead of your own private Dojo node.
Keep in mind as well that any passphrase you enter will generate a completely different wallet, so make sure you are writing this down correctly and double checking your work.
Make sure that you write these down in order and then secure this seed phrase like it was cash, gold or jewelry.
Then you will be at the home screen, you can click on the blue “+” sign to see options for Whirlpool, send, receive and PayNym.
Go out and earn some bitcoin in exchange for goods or services, buy some from an ATM or earn some mining rewards.
From there, anytime you open the Whirlpool client in your mobile Samourai Wallet application, those UTXOs will be registered as available inputs to mixes looking for free riders.
Going a step further, there is a way to achieve 24/7 mixing, even when you close the application on your mobile.
The different options along with accompanying developer signatures can be found here and detailed installation instructions can be found here.
Simply click on the QR code option in the desktop GUI and this should launch your webcam, then hold up the QR code on your mobile so the camera can scan it.
Once signed in, you should be able to see your balances, mixing activity and then you can set targets for how many mixes you wish to achieve.
Now when you initiate mixes from your mobile Samourai Wallet app, you can close the app afterwards and your UTXOs will continue to be registered as available inputs to mixes as free riders so long as your desktop client stays running.