Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Re:Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by Dunedan on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:45PM (#40162125)

> People can do things altruistically - there doesn't always need to be a bitcoin-style monetary incentive.

For a few years Oniontip [1] allowed tipping Tor relay operators with Bitcoin. In my opinion that was a quite nice combination of technologies, as it allowed to anonymously tip operators of a service providing anonymity on the internet.

[1]: https://github.com/DonnchaC/oniontip

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Re:Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by llm_trw on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:54PM (#40163554)

Bit coin is not anonymous. It is literally a ledger of every transaction ever made. Monero is what you want if you value anonymity.

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Re:Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by LordDragonfang on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:52PM (#40164061)

I mean, bitcoin is a lot more anonymous if you host your own wallet and don't cash out through an exchange (or don't cash out at all) - you're just a number. That's definitely not the modal use case today (where its primary use is as a vehicle for ~~gambling~~financial speculation denominated in dollars), but was a lot more common 10 years ago when that project was created.

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Re:Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by llm_trw on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:32PM (#40165020)

Or you just use a crypto currency with anonymity build in.

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Re:Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by LordDragonfang on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:05AM (#40165857)

Sure, but that was probably pretty hard to do ten years ago when this was being developed, because, y'know, Monero didn't exist yet (or had only existed for a few months and had no users)

Also, bitcoin actually was more private back then, because KYC rules were much more lax.

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