Ginger Wallet

What is Ginger Wallet

Ginger Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop. It implements trustless CoinJoin over the Tor anonymity network — the same approach Wasabi pioneered, continued by an independent team.

It’s a fork of Wasabi Wallet, branched after v2.0.7.2. The protocol underneath is WabiSabi: a cryptographic coordination scheme that lets multiple users combine transactions without the coordinator ever learning which inputs map to which outputs. The result is on-chain privacy without trusting anyone.

What it does

Ginger Wallet is built around private, self-custodial Bitcoin usage. The important parts are not separate gimmicks: CoinJoin, coin control, Tor, labeling, and hardware wallet support all work together so the user can understand and improve their on-chain privacy without giving up custody.

Privacy and CoinJoin

• Trustless WabiSabi CoinJoin
• Coin control and labeling
• Remix support
• Anonymity score tracking
• Automatic address rotation

Network and infrastructure

• Tor by default
• Client-side block filters
• Bitcoin-only desktop wallet
• Open-source codebase
• Reproducible releases and signed downloads

Wallet functionality

• Non-custodial seed handling
• Hardware wallet support through HWI
• 2FA and wallet encryption
• QR code support
• Windows, macOS, and Linux builds

How it started

When zkSNACKs — the company behind Wasabi — shut down, almost the entire dev team got termination notices overnight. A few of us started looking for what comes next. Martin Rimoczi showed up with a clear proposition: fork the client, keep the work going, build it independently. That’s how GingerPrivacy was formed.

I joined on day one. I had been at Wasabi since the 1.0 release in October 2018 — it felt like unfinished business.

My role

I work as an independent contractor, responsible for software development on the client: features, bugfixes, architecture, build system, tests, and documentation. My role is on the code side only — coordinator operations, compliance, and financial decisions are handled by InvisibleBit LLC.

Conferences

The team shows up at Bitcoin conferences every year — Bitcoin Miskolc, Bitcoin Prague, and others. Direct contact with users who actually run the wallet day to day.