Being interested in this purely from an online anonymity and privacy perspective the headline
"... Ditches Tor for a More Anonymous Network" is perhaps very misleading and somewhat uninformed.
Tor network hidden_services probably provide the best know anonymity and privacy for users. Although, as stated within their name these services are only
hidden and are therefore not truly anonymous, as from a networking perspective the
potential to locate them exists.
- How to locate a Tor Hidden Service ? -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-locate-a-tor-hidden-service-902763- Tor: Hidden Services and Deanonymisation [31c3] -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdeRmlj8GwBy all accounts the "Silkroad 2.0" was
not located through any know practical and/or theoretical networking 'attack vectors';
- State of the Onion - 31c3 Tor Talk -
http://youtu.be/wKArmXr8o04?t=47m30sMoreover, Further improvements are also being made with regards to how the Tor networks handles hidden_service requests for clients - to improve on anonymity. I have strong doubts as to if I2p would actually currently provide
better user anonymity against an 'all seeing' adversary.
...
However, you can never have enough anon networks or projects for users to utilize or contribute towards. These are interesting crossover projects:
- Abscond Project -
https://hideme.today/dev/- Privacy Solutions -
https://privacysolutions.no/...
It's really great to see Darkcoin getting more recognition as being towards 'Anonymous Digital Cash' (perhaps best described as just 'Digital Cash'
ofc).
- For those of you that don't know (or perhaps forgot) I'm still operating 2x Tor hidden_services for Darkcoin wallet connectivity through Tor:
See:
http://darkproxy.eu/darkvpn.php - N.B. torrc config. is just an example and is due for an update - although the .onion addresses for client connectivity are live and kept updated to Onyx V3 (10.17.26)+
The web proxy service (only on clear net for now) has been running for many months and has hopefully brought some new interest to Darkcoin. Its only a one-hop proxy ofc, with the emphasis being on strong 4096-bit encryption. I'll perhaps look to improve and diversify the service offering in the future; if I can find some project funding, as well as trying to get the wallet nodes integrated with dual I2p connectivity etc.
So,
SWIM assumes transactions over Tor using Darksend and/or over I2p (or a mixture of both then) ?
P.S. Did anyone ever set-up 'anonymous' Darkcoin mining over Tor or I2p yet ? See:
http://eligius.st/~gateway/faq-page#t9n14 > General Questions > Can I mine over Tor?