Anonymous developer forks Samourai Wallet into open source project 'Ashigaru'

Recently, a group of anonymous developers announced a hard fork of the Samourai Wallet code and released the first version of a mobile wallet based on the work of the Samourai team under the new "Ashigaru" open source project. The project website states that Ashigaru "develops, publishes and maintains free and open source software" and promises to develop solutions with low technical barriers while ensuring user security, protection from adversary risks, and maximizing censorship resistance. Ashigaru's developers noted that the project "extensively uses" code from the public domain and other crypto projects. In their mission statement, the developers said: "We believe that anyone should be able to engage in peaceful, voluntary and private business activities on the Internet without tracking, surveillance or censorship." There is limited information about the development team, who call themselves "former users of Samourai Wallet" but explain that they are not associated with the core development group of Samourai Wallet. (Cointelegraph) Earlier, the District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the request of Samourai Wallet founder Keonne Rodriguez to modify bail conditions. Prosecutors submitted as evidence Rodriguez's handwritten "escape preparation" notes, which detailed travel plans and emergency supplies. Rodriguez's lawyers argued that it was just a general emergency plan, but prosecutors believed it was an active escape plan.