5 cryptocurrency projects aimed at anonymity


    Some financiers , businessmen and legalists (and central banks ) believe that anonymity in bitcoin calculations is evil and hindrance, and only helps terrorists and drug dealers. They say that only when the system is deanonymized will its golden age come. However, for some reason, not everyone agrees with them. Under the cut, there are several projects from people who believe that a completely anonymous cryptocurrency system should exist.

    Dark wallet


    This project belongs to Cody Wilson, Amir Taaki and a small group of people called unSYSTEM who call themselves “anarchists”. Wilson is not shy in expressions and simply says: “This is a money laundering project.” The project work consists of two parts.
    CoinJoin is essentially a common payment mixing system. Payments of several people who make them at about the same time randomly change among themselves, so it becomes much more difficult to track who paid for what.
    The second part - the so-called " hidden addresses ". Instead of sending bitcoins directly to the recipient's address, the sender pays for a specially encrypted address, which only the recipient can decrypt (using the Dark Wallet application). Thus, the transaction becomes untraceable.

    Shared coin


    The technology of mixing addresses is already using the well-known blockchain project , which, among other services, provides online wallets. However, it is turned off by default, and in addition, the blockchain warns users that although they do not log, they can be forced to log and track transactions by court order. Otmazyvatsya, in general.

    Darkcoin


    Instead of making add-ons on the existing BTC network, you can of course make your own currency, specially sharpened for anonymity. So did the creators of the Darkcoin project . And despite the fact that there are already more alternative cryptocurrencies now than there are cars in Moscow, this project is popular and seems to be one of the fastest growing cryptocurrencies .
    They also use payment mixing, calling this system DarkSend. But for this, not one server is used, but a system of distributed servers. Everyone can raise such a server for a certain number of Darkcoins. And in compensation for services, he participates in a lottery that randomly distributes a percentage of all new mined DRKs. The project is in alpha stage, but at the moment more than 40 such servers are already working.

    Zerocoin


    If mixing payments makes it difficult to track them, then the creators of Zerocoin want to make it impossible to track them. They use some kind of tricky math, which will allow you not to store complete information about payments in the block chain - while payments can still be confirmed and verified. The creators called this system Zerocash and offer it as an extension of the Bitcoin protocol. According to the authors, after the launch of the project, users will be able to freely convert bitcoin to zerocoin and vice versa. The project is still in development.

    Tor Network Integration


    Mike Hurn, a key Bitcoin developer and chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation committee, has developed a prototype bitcoinj that integrates with Tor. bitcoinj is a bitcoin protocol implemented in Java. It is used by popular wallets - Hive, Multibit, and Android Wallet. Integration with Tor will allow you to hide the IP addresses of people using wallets or services that accept bitcoin, thus adding anonymity to the process of using cryptocurrencies.

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