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CRONOX WALLET

The leading Bitcoin wallet for desktop featuring coinjoin. It's free,
open-source, and non-custodial.
Reclaim your privacy today.

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No default coordinator

Starting from June 1, 2024, Cronox Wallet will no longer have a default coinjoin
coordinator.

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Privacy
by default


BITCOIN IS NOT PRIVATE

Bitcoin transactions are publicly visible to anyone. That’s great to prevent
inflation and fraud without relying on third parties. But it has some privacy
drawbacks.

Coins in the Bitcoin network are called UTXOs (Unspent Transaction Outputs).
Each coin has a unique transaction history and is accounted for by every full
nodes. So all Bitcoin transactions are easily trackable at all times.


Blog post: BITCOIN PRIVACY PRIMER Read it here


RECLAIM YOUR PRIVACY


PRIVACY BY DEFAULT

Get started with privacy by default. All traffic is routed via Tor by default.
Your wallet is synchronized using client-side block filters. Gain on-chain
privacy with the built-in coinjoins.

Enjoy optional insights and control with hardware wallets, custom privacy
profiles, coin control, privacy warnings, change avoidance, personal full node,
developer tools and more.




WHY CRONOX WALLET

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OPEN SOURCE

Cronox Wallet is a free and open-source software. Anyone can see, verify and
even contribute to the code.


STRONG PRIVACY

Neither the public nor developers can breach your privacy. Use of coinjoins,
block filters and the Tor anonymity network guarantee that.


SELF-CUSTODIAL

Not your keys, not your bitcoin. You're in full control of your private keys.


SIMPLE

With Cronox Wallet good privacy on bitcoin just works. Use a simple yet
functional wallet with all the features you'd expect.


ACCESSIBLE

Coinjoin with any amount, from 5,000 sats to 40,000 BTC and anything in between.
WabiSabi is the coinjoin protocol under the hood that makes it work.


AFFORDABLE

WabiSabi is a next generation coinjoin protocol, designed with blockspace
efficiency as a priority so you save on mining fees.


A COINJOIN IS...

A collaborative bitcoin transaction. In a coinjoin, many different users
coordinate the creation of one single transaction with inputs and outputs from
different users.

A coinjoin transaction has many standard outputs of the same amounts, which
makes it very hard to track them back to their initial inputs.

Coinjoins allow users to conceal the history of their coins from the public to
make their UTXOs fungible on the public Bitcoin network.




MINING FEES AND COORDINATOR FEES

When coinjoining, you always pay the mining fees for the block space you use.
Then coordinators can also charge a fee for their service. Both are configurable
to avoid overpaying.


FAQ

WHAT IS A “COINJOIN”?

A coinjoin is a collaborative transaction between multiple peers.

Usually, but not necessarily, it consists of some standard output denominations
that participants should break their coins in to. This makes it difficult for
outside parties to trace where a particular coin was sent to (as opposed to
regular bitcoin transactions, where there is usually one sender and one
receiver).

Coinjoins can be done with non-custodial software like Cronox Wallet, that
eliminates the risk of funds disappearing or being stolen. The funds will always
be in a bitcoin address that the user controls and not even the coordinator can
alter the transaction or redirect the funds.

Coinjoin basically means: “when you want to make a transaction, find someone
else who also wants to make a transaction and make a joint transaction
together”.

DO I NEED TO TRUST THE COORDINATOR WITH MY COINS?

No, Cronox Wallet’s coinjoin implementation is trustless by design. The
participants do not need to trust each other or the coordinator. Since only the
user knows the private keys, only he can sign the transaction, which will only
be done after verifying that everything is alright. Nobody can neither steal
your coins, nor figure out which outputs belong to which inputs.

DOES Cronox Wallet SUPPORT HARDWARE WALLETS?

Cronox Wallet does support hardware wallet usage through the standard
Bitcoin-core HWI, and coinjoining straight to a hardware wallet is possible, but
signing a coinjoin trasaction with a hardware wallet is not implemented.

Here's a list of the officially supported hardware wallets.

IS THERE AN ANDROID/IOS VERSION?

No. Cronox Wallet’s features, like Tor and coinjoin, require considerable
computational power, which are currently not replicable on a smartphone.

There are countless reasons why it is the only logical choice to be
bitcoin-only. With Bitcoin we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to manifest
libre sound money. If we succeed, then an utmost beautiful agora of sovereign
individuals may emerge. If we fail, then this will conjure up the most horrific
Orwellian nightmare. There is no room for wasted time and energy, this great
work requires our full attention. Any line of code written to support a random
shitcoin takes away scarce developer time to work on real problems.

WHAT ARE THE MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS TO RUN Cronox Wallet?

Cronox Wallet runs in most operating systems with 64-bit and arm64 architecture,
like Linux, MacOs and Windows. Cronox Wallet does not required a lot of storage,
CPU and Memory, it should run on basically any hardware. For the complete list
of all the officially supported operating systems, click here.

DO I NEED TO RUN TOR?

All Cronox Wallet network traffic goes via Tor by default -there's no need to
set up Tor by yourself. If you do already have Tor, and it is running, then
Cronox Wallet will try to use that first.

You can turn off Tor in the Settings. Note that in this case you are still
private, except when you coinjoin and when you broadcast a transaction. In the
first case, the coordinator would know the links between your inputs and outputs
based on your IP address. In the second case, if you happen to broadcast a
transaction of yours to a full node that is spying on you, it will know the link
between your transaction and your IP address.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO USE A NEW ADDRESS FOR EVERY PAYMENT?

Addresses being used more than once is very damaging to privacy because that
links together more blockchain transactions with proof that they were created by
the same entity. The most private and secure way to use bitcoin is to give a
brand new address to each person who pays you. After an address has received a
coin, it should never be used again. Also, a brand new bitcoin address should be
demanded from the recipient when sending bitcoin. Cronox Wallet has a user
interface which discourages address reuse by removing from the GUI addresses
which have received a coin.

It has been argued that the phrase "bitcoin address" was a bad name for this
object because it implies it can be reused like an email address. A better name
would be something like "bitcoin invoice".

Bitcoin isn't anonymous but pseudonymous, and the pseudonyms are bitcoin
addresses. Avoiding address reuse is like throwing away a pseudonym after it has
been used.

WHAT IS THE PASSPHRASE USED FOR?

The passphrase you set is used as a 13th seed word (as described in BIP 39) and
to encrypt the private key of the extended private key (as described in BIP 38)
to get an encrypted secret which is stored on the computer.

Cronox Wallet stores only the BIP38 encrypted blob, so you'll need to type in
the passphrase to spend or coinjoin from the wallet.

The passphrase will unlock your bitcoin to anyone who has access to the recovery
words backup or the computer! If your backup gets compromised, this password is
the only thing protecting your precious sats.

It is important to use a random and long passphrase.

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