XMR.TO
Pay any Bitcoin address. Anonymously, using Monero.
Hey people,
arnuschky, a friend, and I made this new service called XMR.TO. It allows you to pay any Bitcoin address in a fully anonymous fashion using Monero.
Payment is nearly instant, so you can use it to pay bitpay bills, or any of your other bitcoin purchases.
Have a look at the website, it explains all the details: https://xmr.to
We're still in beta. In case of problems or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact us or just reply in the dedicated thread. Any feedback of course welcome!
Pay any Bitcoin address. Anonymously, using Monero.
Hey people,
arnuschky, a friend, and I made this new service called XMR.TO. It allows you to pay any Bitcoin address in a fully anonymous fashion using Monero.
Payment is nearly instant, so you can use it to pay bitpay bills, or any of your other bitcoin purchases.
Have a look at the website, it explains all the details: https://xmr.to
We're still in beta. In case of problems or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact us or just reply in the dedicated thread. Any feedback of course welcome!
Good work. Is it truly anonymous though when you have to create the transaction via the website, which could be logging your IP address?
It'd be anonymous if you use it via Tor I suppose. Any chance you could set up an eepsite (i2p) with the same functionality?
Snippet from our FAQ:
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How anonymous is XMR.TO?
Monero payments are anonymous. To be fully precise: given the current state of the art in cryptography, your privacy is provably enforced at the mathematical level. Monero allows to make payment over the internet with the strongest privacy currently achievable by cryptocurrencies. That is what we mean by anonymous. Thus no-one (including us) can link you to the payment you send us.
The only other link to us is your IP address (from which you are visiting this webpage right now), which you should hide when you wish to be fully anonymous (see best practices below).
As bitcoin payments are public, payments we make on your behalf will be visible on the (transparent) bitcoin blockchain. However, thanks to the intrinsic properties of Monero, no-one can associate that payment with you.
What are the best practices for privacy?
Monero payments are anonymous. To be fully precise: given the current state of the art in cryptography, your privacy is provably enforced at the mathematical level. Monero allows to make payment over the internet with the strongest privacy currently achievable by cryptocurrencies. That is what we mean by anonymous. Thus no-one (including us) can link you to the payment you send us.
The only other link to us is your IP address (from which you are visiting this webpage right now), which you should hide when you wish to be fully anonymous (see best practices below).
As bitcoin payments are public, payments we make on your behalf will be visible on the (transparent) bitcoin blockchain. However, thanks to the intrinsic properties of Monero, no-one can associate that payment with you.
What are the best practices for privacy?
- Use TOR or I2P to hide your IP address!
- Be sure to set a sufficient mixin when sending your Monero payment – we generally recommend 3 or higher.
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Do we keep records?
As long as you follow our privacy best practices, no malicious third party can trace bitcoin payments made through XMR.TO back to you. Even if, for whatever reason, they gained full access to our database.
However, for complete customer peace of mind (and our own too), we anyway strive to purge all order data as quickly as possible. We only keep data as long as is necessary to provide a reasonable level of support (for example, refunds in case something went wrong etc.).
To be precise, we purge your order from our database after the bitcoin payment we make on your behalf has 144 confirmations (about 1 day). After 2 more days, your order will be purged from our backups. That means all records of your payment will be gone from our system after 3 days.
Do we log IPs?
Yes, we do. This is partially because it helps for support and maintenance, and partially because it's a royal pain to ensure that they are purged from all server logs everywhere.
It is, in fact, irrelevant whether or not we chose to log IPs. Our hosting service may anyway be logging our traffic, and their logging policy is not in our control. (This is where all the "anonymous" VPN providers lie to you…)
In summary: use TOR or I2P to be fully anonymous.
As long as you follow our privacy best practices, no malicious third party can trace bitcoin payments made through XMR.TO back to you. Even if, for whatever reason, they gained full access to our database.
However, for complete customer peace of mind (and our own too), we anyway strive to purge all order data as quickly as possible. We only keep data as long as is necessary to provide a reasonable level of support (for example, refunds in case something went wrong etc.).
To be precise, we purge your order from our database after the bitcoin payment we make on your behalf has 144 confirmations (about 1 day). After 2 more days, your order will be purged from our backups. That means all records of your payment will be gone from our system after 3 days.
Do we log IPs?
Yes, we do. This is partially because it helps for support and maintenance, and partially because it's a royal pain to ensure that they are purged from all server logs everywhere.
It is, in fact, irrelevant whether or not we chose to log IPs. Our hosting service may anyway be logging our traffic, and their logging policy is not in our control. (This is where all the "anonymous" VPN providers lie to you…)
In summary: use TOR or I2P to be fully anonymous.
