#Tor News

NYM Network Review: Infrastructure for a Privacy-Preserving Internet

May 12, 2021 by Dalmas Ngetich at Blockchain

The way the internet is set favors big corporations and very powerful players, but not the user. As valuable as this might be for some, the internet is irreparably broken. Evidence gathered over the years irrefutably shows that internet surfers, regardless of their locations, are pawns to the excessively intrusive...

Crypto Browser Brave Announces Direct Integration with Dark Web Gateway Tor

October 6, 2020 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Altcoins

Crypto-friendly browser service Brave (BAT) has made it easier to access the secure dark web with direct integration with Tor. The privacy-focused browser platform continues to roll out features designed to prevent spyware and improve online security for its users. Brave Websites Now Accessible from the Dark Web Brave announced...

Samourai’s “Dojo” Set to Boost Transaction Privacy on Bitcoin

June 3, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at News, wallet

Wallet users are generally required to rely on the wallet's back end server for transaction functionality. The release of Samourai Dojo marks a new age of wallets where users can bypass centralized wallet servers and run one of their own, June 3, 2019. Samourai runs a Bitcoin Core node as...

TOR Integrated Cryptocurrency DeepOnion Coin Picks up where Bitcoin Left Off

February 9, 2018 by Guest Post at Bitcoin, ICO/IEO, Tech

The privacy-centric PoS/PoW DeepOnion coin is looking to pick up where bitcoin (BTC) left off and ensure security and efficiency along an anonymous network. The coin is natively integrated with TOR (The Onion Router) network, which makes all peer-to-peer transactions secure and anonymous. The project has already offered 30 airdrops...

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What is Kovri and Why is it Important for Monero?

August 24, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, News, Tech

In a recent OpenHours episode released August 17, several Monero contributors joined the show to talk about the Kovri project. The project aims to further improve the privacy of the Monero network by making it virtually impossible to deduct any information about transactions. Also, Kovri may potentially become the go-to...

Bitmixer’s Exit and Darknet Market Chaos: How Monero Stands to Benefit

July 27, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

The swift takedown of the darknet markets (DNMs) AlphaBay and Hansa, an announcement to exit the market from Bitmixer and the arrest of Alexander Vinnik for laundering $4 billion have all shown that fungibility is still an area for improvement for Bitcoin. As bitcoin shakes off its shady image, Monero...

Is the Anonymity-Centric Cryptocurrency Verge (XVG) a Good Investment?

July 6, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Cryptocyclopedia, News

2017 was an excellent year for the Cryptocurrency Verge. Verge solves a real issue that is present in many large crypto including Bitcoin, fungibility. Mostly this comes down to the fact that Bitcoin is not anonymous. No matter how much the media likes to make it out to be an...

OpenBazaar Pioneering Open Markets with Tor Integration

March 14, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Commentary, News, Tech

OpenBazaar announced during February 2017 that the long-awaited feature to improve anonymity and privacy for vendors and buyers was here, the code which would enable Tor anonymity was ready, and Tor would finally be integrated into the decentralized online marketplace. "Tor has always been the most requested feature by far,"...

Tor Project Launches Secure Encrypted Messenger App

November 2, 2015 by Joseph Young at Entertainment, News, Tech

The Onion Router (Tor) project has released the first beta version of Tor Messenger, an open-source instant messenger client which brings the same level of privacy and security as the network. Tor was initially designed to conceal a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance through a volunteer network...

Transaction Remote Release Whitepaper: TOR-inspired Bitcoin Anonymization

October 13, 2015 by Nigel Dollentas at News, Tech

Many bitcoin users are attracted to its perceived anonymity; however this feature is misleading. Users transact through pseudonymous addresses — long strings of letters and numbers — which can be deanonymized. The two main methods to accomplish this are known as Analysis of Transaction Chain (ATC) and Analysis of Bitcoin...

Study: Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous, Should Not Be Used Over Tor Network

September 22, 2015 by Joseph Young at News, Tech

At the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Ivan Pustogarov, a doctoral student at CryptoLUX, the University of Luxembourg's cryptology research group and author of the research titled Bitcoin Over Tor Isn't A Good Idea, stated that Bitcoin over Tor is not a good idea because Bitcoin is not anonymous...