A short while ago, the
Cashshuffle privacy-oriented platform was released on the Electron Cash
version 4.0. Later on, the protocol will be implemented on the .com
as well
On Wednesday, the Cashshuffle team launched its privacy-protecting tool. From now on, BCH users will enjoy more privacy when paying with their favourite coin.
Cashshuffle added to the new EC
4.0 version
The Electron Cash (EC) with the new privacy protocol is available for all platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac) and also iOS along with Android.
The audit of the new plugin was conducted by the . The firm’s experts made a thorough study of all aspects of Cashshuffle’s work and the way it can be combined with crypto wallets and systems.
The team of researches stated that the shuffle plugin contains no malicious intent, has no deliberate or accidental flaws or potential backdoors.
The Cashshuffle plugin is disabled by default, so users will have to activate it manually.
How the shuffling works
Users can download the new EC version with the security plugin embedded on the ’s official website. The site will give you on setting up a new or importing one. As was said above, the Cashshuffle plugin has to be enabled manually.
When you top your with some BCH coins, the Cashshuffle protocol
will launch – five players will shuffle the coins gradually, so you will just
have to wait.
After the shuffling feature is activated, the settings of the will change allowing you to spend
only shuffled UTXOs (unspent transaction outputs). If you want to transfer unshuffled too, you have to switch the setting off.
Basically, what the plugin does is randomly shuffles transactions of several users on their way to recipients’ addresses. A feature similar to how (XMR) works.
After the process begins, the plugin will notify you at which point you currently are and how much shuffling has been done already.
Waiting for the necessary five people for the shuffling to start may take a while though, up to several hours. It will depend on the number of players who wish to do shuffling at the moment.
The community response
Cash holders took the very positively and showed their excitement in social networks. Besides, now that the Cashshuffle feature has been added to the EC , the company promises to do the same for .com and Badger light clients soon.
Published at Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:09:06 +0000
