World’s First ‘Truly Anonymous’ Crypto Exchange Launches on I2P
http://cryptonewsday.com/worlds-first-truly-anonymous-crypto-exchange-launch... World’s First ‘Truly Anonymous’ Crypto Exchange Launches on I2P The Grand Opening of a new cryptocurrency exchange, offering anonymous peer-to-peer trading over the I2P privacy network, was announced yesterday. Exchanged.I2P will offer its users a way to trade between Bitcoin and a range of altcoins, without compromising their financial privacy. Currently, the following altcoins can be traded: Anoncoin ANC Bitcoin BTC Dogecoin DOGE Dogecoindark DOGED Litecoin LTC Peercoin PPC Primecoin XMP Vertcoin VTC Additional coins will be added in the near future. Other exchanges services such as ShapeShift allow their users to exchange between different cryptocurrencies instantly, without creating an account or sharing personal information, but they are centralized services with no direct peer-to-peer trading, and they do not include the extra privacy protecting measures used by Exchanged.I2P. Not only will the exchange refrain from asking its traders for the usual ‘KYC’ information – your name, address and other personal information – it also includes a range of other privacy-protecting features. Users can create accounts and log-in using just a password or PGP key (or both for 2-factor authentication), without even needing to identify themselves with a username. Of course, the use of the I2P network also means that users cannot be identified and tracked using their IP address. I2P is a privacy network, also known as a ‘deep web’ or ‘darknet’, which allows users to create and browse internet services anonymously. It is used in a very similar way to the more popular TOR network. Some users claim that it offers improved security compared to TOR, which has been compromised in the past. TOR has also been the subject of controversy because a large proportion of its funding which comes from the U.S. government, and the technology it is built on was original developed by U.S. naval intelligence. I2P has failed to gain the levels of popularity achieved by TOR, however, largely because it is more difficult to install and use. The Exchanged.I2P project has been backed by the developers of Anoncoin, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency which is designed for use over I2P and Tor deep web services, and which has become one of the leading cryptocurrencies used on I2P dark markets.
Not quite the first that looks like a typical 'exchange', but the most substantial by far. This one's been known widely for 2mo and spoken for a year. And markets and boards exist in the past and present. It's necessarily closed system, and unnecessarily centralized. Have fun.
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 02:02:13 -0700, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Not quite the first that looks like a typical 'exchange', but the most substantial by far. This one's been known widely for 2mo and spoken for a year. And markets and boards exist in the past and present. It's necessarily closed system, and unnecessarily centralized. Have fun.
Only decentralized exchanges I have found so far are https://bitsquare.io/ and http://mercuryex.com/. To the best of my knowledge neither utilize an onion or garlic routing network to connect nodes. Agree that 'necessarily closed system, and unnecessarily centralized' are undesirable traits of ExchangeD.i2p. Ideal would be decentralized exchange platforms such as the Bitsquare are Mercury running using I2P as network transport.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Regarding decentralized exchanges, there are many... ExchangeD.I2P - - as described at http://cryptonewsday.com/worlds-first-truly-anonymous-crypto-exchange-la unches-on-i2p/ https://bitsquare.io/ http://mercuryex.com/ One could also add into that, because of its characteristics, openbazaar, which can be used for almost anything: https://openbazaar.org/ But before these came to be there were others: http://www.cloakcoin.com/ ~ providing OneMarket - as shown at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637704.0 BitXBay https://github.com/bitxbay/BitXBay http://willmartin.com/the-worlds-first-documented-sale-on-a-decentralize d-online-marketplace-my-book/ NightTrader http://nighttrader.org/ “an encrypted messaging system which creates a totally new system of client networks, which allows them to communicate without the use of centralized servers,” and presents by way of its Market tab, “a decentralized exchange/trading floor implemented in all Halo clients (BlackHalo and BitHalo). BlackHalo http://blackhalo.info/ “a smart contracting client which eliminates the middle man, or the trust you have to put in total stranger when doing transactions,” which presents the option of “micro-trading,” intended to “allow…parties to structure their trust in increments,” with other features. I am certain this is just a partial list of decentralized, distributed exchanges or markets. On 08/05/2015 10:08 AM, Seth wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 02:02:13 -0700, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Not quite the first that looks like a typical 'exchange', but the most substantial by far. This one's been known widely for 2mo and spoken for a year. And markets and boards exist in the past and present. It's necessarily closed system, and unnecessarily centralized. Have fun.
Only decentralized exchanges I have found so far are https://bitsquare.io/ and http://mercuryex.com/. To the best of my knowledge neither utilize an onion or garlic routing network to connect nodes.
Agree that 'necessarily closed system, and unnecessarily centralized' are undesirable traits of ExchangeD.i2p.
Ideal would be decentralized exchange platforms such as the Bitsquare are Mercury running using I2P as network transport.
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