In what will probably end up as a warning bell to trusting centralized services in the Chia space, Arbor Wallet seems to have stopped connecting to the Digital Farming Initiative (DFI) central nodes. What this means is that for users who have the app installed, it does not do much. And for users who would…
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An Examination of the Open Source Arbor Wallet
The Nucle and Arbor wallets have been vying for the premiere spot in the Chia ecosystem since inception. Nucle was seemingly the anointed wallet, given the blessing of the Chia team via the only Cultivation grant handed out (editor’s note: that has been publicly announced) and incessantly defended by top members of the Chia executive…
The trouble with private keys
**Update** This article contains an improper critique of FlexFarmer. A more substantiative update will be done on FlexFarmer key hygiene, which is actually quite good compared to the rest of the ecosystem. **Update 2** FlexPool is back on the menu, according to Gene the farmer private key IS the risk I considered this morning. Expect…
Arbor Wallet sends private keys off device
In a reddit post, redditor u/rm-84 has been poking around the Arbor Wallet mobile app code and discovered something that was definitely not made clear and should give security conscious Chia user pause when using the app for critical transactions. You should head to reddit and read the discussion, but in a nutshell the following…
Arbor Wallet now available on iOS and Android
Update: It has come to our attention that Arbor as currently configured is sending is not decentralized and signs transactions on their web server with the wallet’s private key. They have committed to fixing this but you should be aware. According to a discord post, and the fact that I have downloaded and installed it,…
A new SPV Chia wallet appears, introducing Arbor Wallet
Hot on the heels of Emergent Coin releasing their Nucle Simplified Payment Verification Chia wallet (SPV), Digital Farming Initiative have launched a test version of their new solution called Arbor Wallet, and they have launched it as a discord bot. I cannot tell you how uncomfortable that makes in the sense of a production wallet….
