Go Ahead – Peer Inside the DarkWallet

When you first lay eyes on the DarkWallet, you know you’re looking at something unique. For starters, it’s literally dark – the background is jet black. But the color theme is just the beginning of what sets this new privacy tool apart from all other wallets.
For starters, the DarkWallet offers something that no other crypto wallet has before: a stealth Bitcoin address. Because Bitcoin’s ledger of ownership, the blockchain, is available for all to see, the current balance and the full transaction history of any address is totally public. If your Bitcoin address is publically known, you have little privacy. That’s where a DarkWallet stealth address comes in.
A stealth address is 102 characters long (whereas a traditional Bitcoin address is between 26 and 34 characters long). The DarkWallet software comes pre-installed with ‘spending’, ‘business’ and ‘savings’ pockets. Each pocket has its own stealth address, and you can create as many new pockets as you want.

This post was published at Bitcoin Magazine on OCTOBER 7, 2014.