Came across severa articles mentionning this over the last few years, last one just yesterday:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/tor-project-almost-100-funded-us-government-report
If true than the whole Deeponion project might be useless...
Not trying to spread fud but this is the only reason why I did not invest in this coin yet.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Interesting. Is Tor not open source? Governments do use Tor for many reasons, to hide their own identity. It could just be that they give money to the Tor project because they can. Other than that I haven't seen any evidence of a backdoor. And the more people using Tor, for example running a DeepOnion wallet, the much harder it makes it to track anyone.
Yes TOR is opensource and upgraded regularly, now if the US secret services want to know how to best counter privacy technologies, it's a legitimate effort from their part. It does not mean that DeepOnion with all the different privacy layers will not be really hard if not impossible to trace and they will have to find other ways than through the DeepOnion network.