Enjoying this site? Please to help keep the Snapstats.org lights on.

Description

JoinMarket is software to create a special kind of bitcoin transaction called a CoinJoin transaction. It's aim is to improve the confidentiality and privacy of bitcoin transactions.

Requirements

• Bitcoin node for looking up bitcoin balances and broadcasting transactions
• Tor for privately connecting to IRC for negotiating coinjoins

Setup

• Launch joinmarket once so the configuration file is created
• Edit the ~/snap/joinmarket/current/.joinmarket/joinmarket.cfg configuration file so that JoinMarket can connect to Bitcoin node and IRC over Tor
• Launch joinmarket once again
• Generate a wallet
• Record wallet passphrase
• The app should now load address balances for CoinJoins!

See featured video for more information on getting setup.

Run joinmarket help for additional commands which can be run from the terminal.

• Upstream JoinMarket source: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver
• Snap source: https://github.com/dmp1ce/joinmarket-clientserver
• Github Snap pull request: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/pull/512

Known Issues for this Snap

• JoinMarket-QT is only supported on Ubuntu
• JoinMarket-QT is known to crash on Arch Linux. For details: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/python3-qt-application-on-arch-linux-segmentation-fault-core-dumped/15333/6
• The yield generator script is not currently supported