Biscuit 1.2.1

Biscuit 1.2.1 is out. Download it for Windows, macOS or Linux. If you already use Biscuit, it will offer you the update. Three new ways to hold your money arrive, and exchange swaps now work in Tor mode, through exchanges that never ask who you are.

Solana

Biscuit now holds SOL. It comes from the same 12 words as your other coins, on the address Phantom and Solflare show, so the seed opens the same SOL there. A send costs a fraction of a cent. Solana addresses have no checksum, so Biscuit warns you before you send to an address that holds no SOL, and tells you about Solana’s minimum for the first payment to a new address. Balances and history come from public Solana nodes, or your own in Settings › Network › Solana. See Solana in Biscuit.

Dogecoin

Dogecoin runs on the same light wallet as Bitcoin and Litecoin: Electrum servers, a new address after each payment, coin control, several wallets. Its addresses are the classic D… ones, on the path Cake Wallet and Trezor use, so your seed restores there too. Fees are shown in DOGE per kilobyte, as Dogecoin Core counts them, and a payment usually costs a few cents. See Dogecoin in Biscuit.

Ethereum and Arbitrum

ETH, USDT and USDC can now be held on Arbitrum too, next to Ethereum. Arbitrum is built on top of Ethereum: the coins are the same, but a send costs a fraction of a cent instead of a few cents or more. Most exchanges let you withdraw to it. Your address is the same on both networks, each coin gets its own tab, and every receive page says which network it is for. You can set your own Arbitrum node in Settings › Network › Ethereum. See Ethereum, USDT and USDC.

Swaps in Tor mode

Until now, exchange swaps were off in Tor mode: our swap partner requires us to record the IP address each swap comes from. Biscuit now calls a few exchanges itself, ones that never ask for identity and accept Tor: PegasusSwap, ETZ-Swap and Stereoswap. In Tor mode, they’re the ones offered, reached through our onion address, so the swap never leaves Tor. For these swaps our server records nothing, and the exchange doesn’t see your IP address. Outside Tor mode, their offers are ranked with everyone else’s, by what you receive.

Every exchange holds your coins for the time of a swap, so it’s worth knowing who they are. Under the offers, Who are these exchanges? opens Exchange ratings: what each exchange’s terms allow, what users have reported, and the open incidents, with sources. We check it again before every release.

Smaller things

• The status bar shows your balance as one total in your currency, however many coins you hold: hover it for each coin, click it for the details. It no longer keeps the window from getting narrower.
• When you add a coin, it uses the same 12 words as your other coins by default. Use other words… gives it its own seed instead, new or restored.
• On a Mac, text is sharper and even, on non-Retina screens especially, and addresses are easier to read.
• Swap history shows the network of each coin.
• New pixel-art icons for Solana and Dogecoin.
• The documentation in Help covers Solana, Dogecoin and Arbitrum.

As always, please verify your download before you install it.

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