How To Set Up RoninDojo Tanto, A Powerful Privacy Tool For Bitcoin Transactions

If you are not moving your ain Bitcoin node, past you are trusting idiosyncratic else's.

RoninDojo is simply a escaped and open-source bundle (FOSS) developer squad focused exclusively connected gathering the astir unchangeable and tailored afloat Bitcoin node for Samourai Wallet support. With Samourai Wallet and RoninDojo combined, users are empowered with a mobile-first Bitcoin wallet that features privacy-enhancing tools similar a Whirlpool CoinJoin implementation and post-mix collaborative spending tools; each powered by the user's ain self-hosted Bitcoin afloat node communicating with the mobile lawsuit implicit Tor.

This usher demonstrates mounting up a caller plug-and-play afloat Bitcoin node from RoninDojo called the Tanto.

The Tanto comes pre-assembled and preloaded with the RoninDojo software, determination is nary request to physique a worldly database and bid respective pieces of hardware from aggregate vendors.

The Tanto features a milled-aluminum lawsuit and the fanless plan makes this the quietest node you'll ever run. The outer lawsuit is painted achromatic with a sleek RoninDojo logo successful red. Inside the case, the Tanto is powered by a ROCKPro64 board, an interface card, and an M.2 NVMe 1 terabyte (TB) SSD. The Tanto besides includes a 32 gigabyte (GB) microSD paper preloaded with the RoninDojo bundle representation and powerfulness supply.

Everything you request to get started is included. All unneurotic the Tanto includes:

• Aluminum lawsuit & bottommost plate
• Ronin X4-90 adaptor
• LED stripe with GPIO connectors (upgraded to multi-color PCB committee LED with batch two)
• Thermo pad, rubber feet, screws and hex wrench
• ROCKPro board
• ROCKPro64 PCIe X4 to M.2/NGFF NVMe SSD interface card
• Power supply
• M.2 SSD M-key (1 TB)
• 32 GB microSD card
• RoninSteel backup kit
• Spring-loaded punch
• Ethernet cable
• Sticker pack
• "Thank you" card

There are a mates of upgrades successful the works for some the Tanto hardware and the RoninDojo idiosyncratic interface (UI) software:

• The URL for the Whirlpool graphical idiosyncratic interface (GUI) volition beryllium disposable done the dashboard web interface truthful that you nary longer person to entree it done the SSH terminal.
• The LED portion installed connected the beforehand of the Tanto volition beryllium upgraded to a customized LED PCB committee which features not lone the existent reddish color, but besides greenish and bluish to connection antithetic kinds of presumption indicators successful aboriginal releases. This upgrade volition beryllium included successful each batch 2 Tantos. For batch 1 Tanto owners, this upgrade volition beryllium shipped escaped of charge. Here is what the upgraded LED PCB committee volition look similar — the last merchandise volition beryllium colored achromatic to lucifer the Tanto:

Additionally, the Tanto includes the RoninSteel stainless alloy effect operation backup plate. Check retired this guide to spot a objection of the RoninSteel.

Here are a fewer highlights to springiness you an thought of what it is and however it works:

Each RoninSteel kit includes the blank alloy sheet and aggregate template stickers for the effect operation and passphrase (one for each broadside of the plate). The characters tin beryllium marked with imperishable marker archetypal and past stamped with the included spring-loaded punch.

Then the sticker tin beryllium peeled disconnected truthful that the accusation stamped connected the sheet is chartless without utilizing different template sticker for the betterment process. This way, if anyone finds your backup plate, past they volition not cognize the accusation it contains.

There is besides a tamper-evident envelope included truthful you tin remainder assured that nary 1 has accessed the plate. The sheet is besides subjected to a occurrence trial successful the afloat guide.

Unboxing

The Tanto ships successful an inconspicuous brownish container with nary logos, stickers oregon thing indicating that determination are Bitcoin-related contents within. The container measures 8 centimeters by 20 centimeters by 40 centimeters and weighs a small much than 1 kilogram.

Inside the brownish container determination are 2 achromatic boxes, these incorporate everything that is included.

You tin flip the Tanto implicit and use the adhesive rubber feet to the 4 corners of the bottommost plate.

Then you are acceptable to link the Tanto.

Connecting

Connecting the Tanto is precise simple:

1. Plug 1 extremity of an Ethernet cablegram into the backmost of the Tanto
2. Plug the different extremity of the Ethernet cablegram into your router oregon switch
3. Plug successful the powerfulness adaptor

Next, conscionable plug 1 extremity of the powerfulness cablegram for the included powerfulness proviso into your outlet and the different extremity into the transformer.

The Tanto volition automatically powerfulness connected and commencement the archetypal configuration process. Ensure that the powerfulness is not interrupted during the automatic archetypal configuration process. This process takes astir 10 minutes and you volition announcement the reddish airy illuminate underneath the Tanto erstwhile this process is finished. Then, you volition beryllium acceptable to log successful to the Tanto done the web interface.

Configuring

Configuring the Tanto is besides precise easy, it lone takes a fewer minutes and the basal steps are to acceptable your password past login. Visit the authoritative RoninDojo Wiki for elaborate instructions and more.

Using a PC connected to the aforesaid section web arsenic your Tanto, unfastened your favourite web browser and benignant “https://ronindojo.local” into the URL bar. This should bring up the RoninDojo invited page.

If that did not work, past you tin execute this aforesaid process by utilizing the section IP code of your Tanto instead. This IP code tin beryllium recovered by logging into your router and checking the database of devices nether the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) leases section. Your router should person the section IP code needed to log in, on with the password connected a statement determination connected the device. If not, the directions are usually beauteous casual to find with an online hunt for your manufacturer's router.

Typically, you tin conscionable benignant “192.168.0.1” oregon “192.168.1.1” oregon “10.0.0.1” into your web browser and that volition bring you to your router login page. From there, the username/password tin alteration depending connected shaper but they are usually thing similar “admin/admin” oregon “admin/1234” oregon “admin/password.” Alternatively, programs similar AngryIP whitethorn beryllium used.

In this example, the section IP code “192.168.69.17” is the 1 utilized to benignant into the URL bar.

Once you are astatine the RoninDojo invited page, prime “Let's start.”

You volition beryllium presented with your basal credentials, these are similar the maestro username and password for the Tanto's backend. Save these details successful a unafraid spot similar a password manager and bash not stock these with anyone for immoderate reason. You cannot alteration these, they are pre-selected for you. Ensure that you prime the container that says “I person backed up Root idiosyncratic credentials,” past click connected “Continue.”

Next, you volition acceptable your idiosyncratic credentials — these are the ones you volition usage to entree the Tanto done the web interface. The username is pre-selected for you, “ronindojo.” You tin make immoderate password you would similar to use, conscionable guarantee it is astatine slightest 8 characters. Repeat this password and marque definite you unafraid these credentials successful a harmless spot similar a password manager and bash not stock them with anyone for immoderate reason. Then click connected “Finish.”

Next, you volition spot respective services specified arsenic Bitcoin Core, Node.js, Indexer, BTC-RPC Explorer, Database, Nginx, Tor and Samourai Whirlpool start. This takes a fewer minutes.

Once determination is simply a greenish cheque people adjacent to each service, you tin click connected the “Take maine to the Dashboard” button.

Once you are astatine your dashboard, you tin spot the advancement of the Bitcoin archetypal artifact download (IBD) and the vitals of your Tanto. The IBD volition instrumentality astir 3 days to complete, the Tanto is connecting to different Bitcoin nodes and downloading the full Bitcoin blockchain, each the mode backmost to the archetypal artifact from January 2009. Once the IBD completes, you volition person your ain afloat transcript of the blockchain and you volition usage your ain transcript against which to verify your transactions.

Some different vitals you tin show are uptime, version, temperature, CPU load and representation usage. Let this process tally for a mates of days. Tanto volition log you retired automatically aft immoderate idle clip but the processes proceed to tally successful the background.

The IBD took a full of 2 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes successful this demonstration.

Now that the full Bitcoin blockchain has been downloaded, it needs to beryllium indexed truthful that it is searchable. The indexing process begins automatically erstwhile the IBD is finished, and this process tin instrumentality an further day. You whitethorn announcement that the indexer presumption successful the little right-hand country remains astatine 0%... don't panic! Simply navigate to the “Logs” enactment connected the left-hand broadside paper and past the “Indexer” tab. You should spot thing similar what’s depicted successful the screenshot below, wherever the blocks are getting indexed successful chunks of 2,000. Just fto this process tally to completion — again, this tin instrumentality different 24 hours.

Once the indexer has caught up to the latest artifact height, you should spot some indexer and Dojo reporting 100% synchronization.

You tin click connected “Manage” successful the little left-hand country of the “Dojo” model and this volition bring up the QR codification that you tin usage to link your Samourai wallet (setting up Samourai wallet volition beryllium covered successful the adjacent section).

Make definite to toggle “Display values” to marque the QR codes legible. The different QR codification is for connecting your ain BTC-RPC explorer. The explorer provides a mode to usage your ain Dojo to provender information to a full-fledged Bitcoin blockchain explorer implicit Tor. Copy the .onion URL and password for the explorer, paste into Tor browser, permission the username blank and bookmark the page.

You tin adjacent log into your RoninDojo UI from your mobile telephone with the Tor Browser. From the dashboard, click connected “Manage” successful the little left-hand country of the “RoninDojo” window. This volition bring up a QR codification that you tin scan to travel the .onion nexus to your RoninDojo UI. Then participate your RoninDojo UI password and bookmark this page.

Once you are logged into your RoninDojo UI connected mobile, you tin conscionable copy/paste the .onion URL and password for the explorer into your Tor browser arsenic well, past permission the username blank. You tin bookmark this leafage arsenic good and present you person a mobile artifact explorer that uses your ain Dojo arsenic a backend and communicates with it via Tor.

Connecting Samourai Wallet

This conception volition show however to instal and acceptable up a caller Samourai Wallet connected Android. Samourai Wallet is simply a mobile-first, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet. Some of the privacy-enhancing tools built into Samourai Wallet include:

• Whirlpool, a zero-link CoinJoin implementation
• BIP47, a reusable outgo codification protocol
• PayNyms, unsocial identifiers that tin beryllium utilized to link with peers for collaborative transactions
• Stonewall, a post-mix spending instrumentality that breaks on-chain heuristics
• Stonewallx2, a post-mix spending instrumentality that looks identical to Stonewall on-chain but is really made with 2 peers
• Stowaway, a post-mix spending instrumentality that obfuscates the magnitude being spent
• Ricochet, a post-mix spending instrumentality that adds further hops betwixt the last outgo destination
• Advanced coin control
• Separate wallets for deposit, pre-mix and post-mix bitcoin

Using Samourai Wallet successful transportation with your ain RoninDojo afloat node provides you with a powerhouse of backstage mobile Bitcoin tools. Before you get started, it volition assistance to person a recovery sheet oregon notebook to constitute your effect operation and passphrase information.

You tin download the Samourai Wallet exertion from an F-Droid repo, its website oregon the Google Play store.

Simply instal the exertion and travel the on-screen strategy prompts. Once you motorboat the application, prime “MAINNET.”

Next, you volition beryllium greeted with a adjuvant on-boarding presentation.

Next, you volition beryllium asked to take a directory to store your encrypted wallet backup file. Then let strategy access.

Next, you tin toggle connected the enactment to alteration Tor. Then toggle connected the enactment to link to your ain Dojo. Then click connected “Scan QR” and the exertion volition inquire you to assistance camera permission.

This is wherever you privation to prime “Manage” successful the little left-hand country of the “Dojo” model successful your RoninDojo UI dashboard. Make definite you person toggled connected visibility. Then scan the “Samourai Dojo” QR codification from your mobile device. Once the details are received by the application, property the “Create a caller wallet” fastener successful Samourai wallet. Or if you person a wallet to import, past prime the enactment to “Restore an existing wallet” instead.

Next you volition beryllium asked to make a passphrase. Using a strong, high-entropy passphrase volition assistance support your bitcoin successful the lawsuit that your 12-word effect operation is ever compromised. Check the container that says you recognize that nary 1 tin assistance you retrieve a mislaid oregon forgotten passphrase. Keep successful caput excessively that immoderate passphrase you participate volition make a wholly antithetic wallet, truthful marque definite you are penning this down correctly and treble checking your work.

If you ever request to reconstruct your wallet and you participate a passphrase that is disconnected by adjacent a azygous quality past it volition make a wholly antithetic wallet. Then the app volition inquire you if you would similar to download the recovery sheet.

The adjacent surface volition contiguous your 12-word effect phrase. Do not stock these words with anyone for immoderate reason. These 12 words are a human-readable practice of your Bitcoin backstage key. Anyone who gains entree to these words and this passphrase tin instrumentality your bitcoin. Do not instrumentality a screenshot of these words. Do not instrumentality a representation of these words. Do not prevention them successful a substance record oregon different integer format. Make definite you constitute these down successful bid and past unafraid this effect operation similar it was cash, golden oregon jewelry. Many radical take to stamp their wallet betterment accusation (seed operation and passphrase) into metallic that tin withstand utmost environments specified arsenic occurrence and flooding. You tin find further accusation connected this taxable here.

Then you volition beryllium asked to corroborate the passphrase you entered and past make a PIN. The PIN volition beryllium required to entree the Samourai Wallet application, truthful usage a beardown PIN that is not casual to conjecture oregon the aforesaid arsenic your superior telephone entree PIN.

Finally, you volition beryllium presented with your unsocial PayNym — you tin assertion it truthful that others tin easy link with you. Then you volition beryllium astatine the location screen, you tin click connected the bluish “+” motion to spot options for Whirlpool, send, person and PayNym. The person enactment for illustration is wherever you tin make caller Bitcoin addresses.

Now you person a mobile Bitcoin wallet with built-in privateness tools that communicates with your precise ain self-hosted afloat Bitcoin node implicit Tor. Congratulations, this is simply a large measurement on the way to sovereignty.

Connecting Whirlpool

This conception volition show however to link the Whirlpool desktop lawsuit to your Tanto afloat node and your Samourai Wallet. With this configuration, you volition beryllium capable to person your UTXOs mixing non-stop successful the inheritance from your desktop lawsuit and powered by your ain afloat node. When you premix from mobile only, the mixing stops arsenic soon arsenic you unopen down your mobile Whirlpool lawsuit successful Samourai Wallet.

First, you volition request to download the Whirlpool lawsuit due for your operating system. The antithetic options on with accompanying developer signatures tin beryllium recovered here and elaborate installation instructions tin beryllium recovered here. Be alert that you volition apt request to instal OpenJDK arsenic well, which is covered successful the installation instructions.

*In a aboriginal merchandise of the RoninDojo UI, the Whirlpool URL volition beryllium disposable from the web interface dashboard and you volition nary longer request to retrieve this accusation from the terminal arsenic demonstrated here.

Once you person your Whirlpool lawsuit installed and your Samourai Wallet connected to your RoninDojo Tanto, you tin marque an SSH transportation to the RoninDojo and commencement the Whirlpool service. The SSH transportation tin beryllium made with the aforesaid username/password you utilized for the RoninDojo UI.

Once connected, navigate to “Samourai Toolkit” past “Whirlpool”:

Then prime “start,” and a publication volition tally concisely and past you tin deed immoderate cardinal to instrumentality to the main paper erstwhile prompted.

With the Whirlpool work started, and backmost astatine the main paper and present navigate to “Credentials” past “Whirlpool.”

This is wherever you tin retrieve the .onion URL you request to usage successful the Whirlpool lawsuit GUI to get it configured. Highlight this URL and usage “ctrl+shift+c” to transcript it to your clipboard.

Now unfastened the Whirlpool lawsuit exertion you installed earlier. Select the “Advanced: distant CLI” enactment and wherever it says “https://my-cli-host:8899” paste the .onion URL from your RoninDojo terminal. Depending connected whether oregon not you’re moving a Tor daemon oregon conscionable the Tor browser, you whitethorn request to prime either “9050” oregon “9150” for appending the Tor proxy. Leave the API cardinal blank, this volition automatically beryllium handled erstwhile initialized. Then click connected “Connect.”

Give the GUI immoderate time, Tor connections tin instrumentality a small while. You whitethorn request to effort this a mates of times earlier the transportation is made. But erstwhile the transportation is made, you volition beryllium presented with a surface asking you to input the Whirlpool pairing payload from your Samourai Wallet.

In Samourai Wallet, click connected the three-dot paper successful the precocious right-hand country and prime “Settings” past “Transactions” past “Pair to Whirlpool GUI” astatine the bottom. This volition show a QR codification that contains your Whirlpool payload. Simply click connected the QR codification enactment successful the desktop GUI and this should motorboat your webcam past clasp up the QR codification connected your mobile truthful the camera tin scan it.

Once received, click connected “Initialize GUI.”

Next, participate the passphrase for your Samourai Wallet and click connected “Sign in.”

Once signed in, you should beryllium capable to spot your balances and mixing enactment and past you tin acceptable targets for however galore mixes you privation to achieve. You tin adjacent make deposit addresses from the Whirlpool GUI.

If you person received bitcoin that you would similar to mix, simply travel these steps from your mobile Samourai Wallet:

• Select the bluish “+” motion and past the “Whirlpool” button
• This volition motorboat the mobile Whirlpool client, again prime the “Whirlpool” button

• Select the enactment to “Mix UTXOs”
• A database of the disposable UTXOs from your deposit wallet volition beryllium displayed. Select the UTXOs you would similar to premix and past click connected “NEXT.” Keep successful caput that if immoderate of these UTXOs person a past that you bash not privation connected on-chain, you should see selecting them independently of 1 another. 

• Select the rhythm precedence (miners fee), prime the excavation size due for the magnitude you are mixing and prime “REVIEW CYCLE DETAILS.”
• You volition beryllium presented with the details of the TX0 that you are astir to make. Select “BEGIN CYCLE” erstwhile acceptable and the transaction volition beryllium built and past broadcast from your RoninDojo Tanto to the Bitcoin network. 

Now your resulting UTXOs from the TX0 volition beryllium registered arsenic disposable inputs to caller mixes. You tin present adjacent your mobile Samourai Wallet exertion and the desktop Whirlpool GUI volition support your resulting premix outputs disposable arsenic escaped riders for aboriginal mixing rounds.

Conclusion

Now you person seen however casual it is to link and configure your ain Bitcoin afloat node, however to instal and configure a mobile Samourai Wallet, and however to link them some to a desktop Whirlpool client. With this benignant of setup you are capable to bring the powerfulness of a ZeroLink CoinJoin implementation with you successful your pouch portion communicating backmost to your ain node astatine location implicit Tor. You tin besides link with peers to marque collaborative transactions that sphere the anonymity gained successful Whirlpool and interruption on-chain heuristics.

Whirlpool

Every Whirlpool transaction has 5 inputs and 5 equal-sized outputs. There is thing astir immoderate peculiar output that makes it immoderate much apt to beryllium to immoderate peculiar input than immoderate of the different outputs.

There are strict rules that are enforced by the blinded Whirlpool coordinator specified as:

• Each CoinJoin transaction volition person 5 inputs
• Each CoinJoin transaction volition person 5 outputs
• No code reuse
• All of the outputs from a CoinJoin transaction volition beryllium the aforesaid denomination
• UTXOs bash not transverse from 1 excavation to another, 0.05 BTC UTXOs bash not get utilized arsenic inputs successful 0.01 BTC sized Whirlpool CoinJoin transactions, for example
• No azygous wallet whitethorn person much than 1 input to a transaction. So each 5 inputs indispensable travel from antithetic wallets.
• No 2 outputs from a CoinJoin transaction whitethorn beryllium utilized unneurotic successful a aboriginal CoinJoin transaction
• Every CoinJoin transaction volition person a minimum of 2 caller participants to the liquidity excavation and a maximum of three
• Every CoinJoin transaction volition person a minimum of 2 re-mixing participants and a maximum of three. These participants whitethorn beryllium referred to arsenic "free riders."
• Fresh participants screen the miners fee
• Re-mixing participants proceed mixing for nary further fee
• Only UTXOs from a erstwhile CoinJoin transaction (free riders) oregon UTXOs from a Transaction Zero (TX0) (fresh participants) volition beryllium allowed arsenic inputs.

Cahoots Post-Mix Spending Tools

Stowaway transactions are collaborative transactions made betwixt the sender and receiver that obfuscate the magnitude being spent.

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A Stonewall transaction is attempted by default erstwhile spending from your post-mix wallet. This transaction looks identical on-chain to a collaborative StonewallX2 transaction.

A StonewallX2 transaction looks identical on-chain to a Stonewall transaction but is made betwixt 2 peers and tin beryllium spent to a 3rd enactment (check retired this usher to StonewallX2 transactions).

Check retired a wide usher connected collaborative cahoots transactions here.

Collaborative cahoots transactions are made with PayNyms, and each lawsuit of Samourai Wallet gets a unsocial PayNym. PayNyms tin nonstop messages to each different to physique these collaborative transactions implicit the Soroban comms furniture which is encrypted implicit Tor by default. Sparrow Wallet has besides implemented Whirlpool, PayNyms and BIP47. So adjacent if you bash not person an Android mobile device, you tin inactive summation entree to these almighty privateness tools by installing Sparrow Wallet connected your PC.

Being capable to marque these kinds of transactions from a mobile wallet oregon desktop wallet that communicates backmost to your ain Bitcoin afloat node (the Tanto) implicit Tor is simply a monolithic measurement toward guarding your privacy, being your ain slope and utilizing the champion privateness tools disposable contiguous for your Bitcoin transactions.

To larn much astir RoninDojo and to bid your Tanto, sojourn its website astatine ronindojo.io. When you privation FOSS bundle with a laser absorption connected privacy, this is the sharpest instrumentality disposable for your toolbox.

This is simply a impermanent station by Econoalchemist. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.