Pretty much the same reasons how I got interested in Pandacoin (PND) and eventually got involved as a development team member in the first place.
The symbolism behind the coin is paramount to increase chances of widespread adoption and giving it the extra viral-factor (see doge). Asiacoin lacks that aspect, even if we choose to give it some legitimacy as a potential competitor if we choose to disregard how they unfairly launched and is now perceived as a scam.
We were discussing some things in IRC, and this popped out again.
So obviously Tor anonymizes your traffic, but since we have a public ledger (the blockchain), it's only one part of the story, because all transactions are tracable.
On the other hand just having coinmixing (and no anonimization) would sell off the fact that you run the wallet and send/recieve transactions.
So to have a complete solution to this problem we should have both a traffic anonymizer (like Tor) and something like coinmixing or such.
I genuinely believe that nobody would be able to trace coiners with this, as long as they explicitly don't say so in public (like posting their address on a forum/social media with an account linked to their name).
The NSA stated in their secret documents that they have a hard time tracing people on Tor. They are only able to deanonymize people that they are actively after, without 100% success rate.
If we had both Tor and coinmixing, it would take the difficulty (for them) to a whole new level.
WenBo, is Tor used in China (I mean by people who care to set it up?)
