Re:Kagi Search API
by garrtt on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:41AM
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This is the same reason I still haven't become a paying customer. If Kagi had a similar account creation / payment processing setup as Mullvad VPN I would be all in.
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Re:Kagi Search API
by do_not_redeem on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:53AM
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You can pay with bitcoin if you want. Bitcoin is not fully anonymous (but for that matter, neither is cash-in-the-mail since TLAs store photos of the outside of envelopes, but I digress). Kagi itself doesn't have the data needed to de-anonymize the transaction, so it's as anonymous as you can reasonably expect.
> Bitcoin is not fully anonymous
Bitcoin is not anonymous at all, a public ledger is the opposite of anonymous if anything. At best it's pseudonymous.
I think parent used Mullvad as an example as they actually support creation of accounts 100% anonymously, as you can literally mail them an envelope with cash.
> Bitcoin is not anonymous at all
Well, acktshually…
BTC can be anonymous through careful wallet management combined with methods such as CoinJoins[1].