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JoininBox

A minimalistic, security focused linux environment for JoinMarket with a terminal based graphical menu.

Features

  • Send transactions with improved privacy using CoinJoin and PayJoin
  • Run the Yield Generator as a service and earn fees for providing liquidity
  • Use the JoinMarket-QT GUI remotely over SSH
  • Signet support to test for free
  • Connect remotely to a Bitcoin Core node
  • Start a pruned node from https://prunednode.today/
  • JoininBox is part the RaspiBlitz SERVICES

The addresses, transactions and balances of JoinMarket can be seen in the watch-only wallet of the connected node.

  • use your own or a trusted node
  • to protect privacy in case of physical access use disk encryption

Required Hardware

JoininBox operates on the minimum viable hardware under the assumption that the seed (and passphrase) of the wallets used is safely backed up and can be used to recover the funds!

Set up with an SDcard image

  • Download and verify the latest prebuilt image for the Raspberry Pi 4:

  • Write to the SDcard with Balena Etcher

  • Assemble the RaspberryPi and connect with a LAN cable to the internet

  • Make sure that your laptop and the RPi are on the same local network

  • Boot by connecting the power cable

  • Open a terminal (OSX/Win10) and connect with ssh.
    Use the hostname of the latest SDcard image (rpi4-20210210) or to find the IP address to connect to:

    • scan with the AngryIP Scanner
    • use sudo arp -a or
    • check the router interface

    ssh joinmarket@rpi4-20210210 → use the password: joininbox

  • after the first login will be prompted to change the password to access the menu. password change

  • next will be presented with the CONFIG menu to

    • Connect to a remote bitcoin node on mainnet
    • Try JoinMarket on signet
    • Start a pruned node from prunednode.today
    • Edit the joinmarket.cfg manually
    • Update JoininBox or JoinMarket

    config menu

  • Update to the latest version of JoininBox and update JoinMarket if the latest version is newer than the one installed on the SDcard

    After any of the options or Exit is selected the main JoininBox menu will open where you can start using JoinMarket

    menu

  • Find more info on the usage and community help at the end of this readme

Set up JoininBox on Linux

Tested environments

Install JoininBox

  • Start as the root user or change with:
    $ sudo - su

  • Run the build script:

    # download
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openoms/joininbox/master/build_joininbox.sh
# inspect the script
cat build_joininbox.sh
# run
sudo bash build_joininbox.sh

  • start the JoininBox menu by changing to the joinmarket user in the terminal:
    $ sudo su joinmarket
    or
    log in with ssh to:
    joinmarket@LAN_IP_ADDRESS
    the default password is: joininbox - will be prompted to change it on the first start

More info

About JoinMarket

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