Goblin — a private wallet for GRIN ツ
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Goblin is a private wallet for
GRIN. Pay a username and the payment is
delivered as an end-to-end encrypted message over nostr, through
- the Nym mixnet. No files to swap. No need to both be online.
+ Tor. No files to swap. No need to both be online.
+ avatars — ride
+ Tor, embedded
+ right into the app. Tor hides your IP from the relay; the relay and
+ encryption hide the rest — content, sender, timing. (The grin node
+ connects directly — public chain data, not tied to you.) Nothing to
+ set up.
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Your numbers, your way
Off by default. Opt into a world currency, Bitcoin, or sats and the
- rate is fetched over the mixnet — nothing leaves your device otherwise.
+ rate is fetched over Tor — nothing leaves your device otherwise.
Your seed, keys, contacts, payment history, and settings are stored
only on your device. They are never uploaded.
Wallet network traffic — relay connections, name lookups, exchange
- rates — is routed through the Nym mixnet. The services you reach see
- mixnet exit traffic, not your IP address, and the mixnet's 5-hop design
- hides who is talking to whom at the network layer.
+ rates — is routed through Tor. The services you reach see Tor exit
+ traffic, not your IP address. Tor hides your IP from the relay; the
+ relay and encryption handle the rest — content, sender, and timing.
Payments travel as end-to-end encrypted nostr events. Relays see
ciphertext and the recipient's ephemeral routing key — not the amount,
the sender, or the message.
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Registration and release requests are authenticated by signature
(NIP-98); we never see a private key.
Rate-limiting uses connection IP addresses transiently. Since the
- wallet talks to goblin.st over the Nym mixnet, we typically see mixnet
- exit addresses, not yours.
+ wallet talks to goblin.st over Tor, we typically see a Tor exit
+ address, not yours.
Release your name and it leaves public resolution immediately and
becomes available for anyone to register.