Stratis released the Alpha Version of Breeze wallet.

Stratis continues to be on a roll! Their roadmap looked very sweet for Q3 and now that Q3 officially started everything seems to be going smooth. They're delivering as planned.

Earlier this week they released a nice dashboard app for mobile: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@valderrama/stratis-dashboard-app-for-mobile-released

And they also released their full node on the Microsoft Azure marketplace: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@valderrama/stratis-full-node-is-available-on-the-azure-marketplace

Following up on all that good stuff they announced that they released an Alpha version of their Breeze Wallet. This is what they tweeted:

Here is the link they're referring to: https://stratisplatform.com/2017/06/30/alpha-version-of-breeze-wallet-released/

According to the Stratis team Breeze Wallet is a proof of concept on the utilization of C# / .Net programming languages into cryptocurrencies, combined with the Stratis Platform capabilities.

The Breeze wallet is the first full SPV Wallet written in C#. The initial version allows execution of test transactions with Bitcoin (BTC) on the BTC testnet.

Now, I didn't really know why this is supposed to be such a huge deal but it's been hitting the news for a while now. Stratis themselves explained it like this in another post on their website:

Stratis Group has announced it is launching an ambitious cryptocurrency project, aimed at increasing financial privacy available to the users of Bitcoin and the Stratis Platform.

The project dubbed “Breeze Wallet” incorporates the innovations brought by TumbleBit to both Bitcoin and Stratis, into a real-world production environment combined with the privacy enhancements introduced by the Full Block Secure Payment Validation system.

Stratis plans to integrate TumbleBit into the Breeze Wallet making it the first Bitcoin wallet that addresses the privacy issues in blockchain transactions, the Breeze Wallet works with the current Bitcoin protocol and does not require any forks.

The expected inflow of Bitcoin users towards a TumbleBit enabled Bitcoin wallet offering enhanced privacy, will undoubtedly translate into making it the de-facto wallet for such transactions around the world. This in turn, will represent an extraordinary opportunity to expose Stratis and its platform to all those users, and this will further cement our symbiotic relationship with the leading cryptocurrency and its community.

See: https://stratisplatform.com/2017/03/02/stratis-breeze-wallet-redefines-financial-privacy-for-blockchains/

Apparently millions and millions of bitcoin users will be able to increase their financial privacy with the Breeze Wallet. They will get truly private and unlinkable transactions plus more security. Payments cannot be stolen anymore for example. Tumblebit is a quite a thing my fellow Steemians.

Bringing millions of users over to your wallet, having them essentially linked to the Stratis platform as well might be a game changer. A pretty big one perhaps.

So, let the testing begin! And hopefully they'll get to release the final product soon, as planned.