This directory contains documentation on the design concepts behind this wallet. Bitcoin wallets all work slightly differently because of the trade-offs the designers made between convenience, privacy, and technology available at the time.
The bch-cli-wallet is optimized for privacy. As such, it does not combine UTXOs in the background, as many modern wallets do. Combining UTXOs is convenient for the user, but can de-anonymize them too.
For example, the send command will return this message:
Could not find a UTXO big enough for this transaction.
...if it cannot find a confirmed UTXO larger than the amount-to-send. It will not combine
UTXOs to make the payment. The send-all command is the only command that will
combine UTXOs, and it will warn the user when it does so.
The Roadmap for this project includes integration to privacy technology like CashShuffle and Consolidating CoinJoin, in order to combine UTXOs in a way that does not degrade the users privacy.
Additional information on the design decisions and trade-offs will be documented here and in the header of each commands .js file.