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Economy => Exchanges => Topic started by: audereyy on October 27, 2019, 05:24:48 PM



Title: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: audereyy on October 27, 2019, 05:24:48 PM
Are there any good exchanges that offer access via Tor ?


Title: Re: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: LeGaulois on October 27, 2019, 06:11:47 PM
None that I know of and when I see how they bother us with all the KYC/AML it doesn't make any sense on their side.
As an alternative, you could use a decentralized exchange like Bisq, which uses Tor for end-to-end encrypted communication, or service à la Changely/Flyp.me over Tor


Title: Re: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: bL4nkcode on October 27, 2019, 11:54:08 PM
None, nothing I knew, if there is from strange/non-reputed website then probably its scam, not unless their service was used by many on the surface web websites.


Title: Re: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: hugeblack on October 28, 2019, 04:33:04 PM
Are there any good exchanges that offer access via Tor ?
You will not increase security/privacy when using Tor/.onion as much as you are more likely to be scammed.
All platforms that require proof of identity (KYC/AL) will not use Darknet URLs.
You can try some alternatives such as:

 
  • BISQ: https://bisq.network/
  • coinswitch.co: https://coinswitch.co/
  • simpleswap.io: https://simpleswap.io/

Be careful, if you do not want to be exposed to risk, it is best to use this forum and exchange with trusted people.


Title: Re: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: audereyy on November 05, 2019, 03:27:08 AM
You will not increase security/privacy when using Tor/.onion as much as you are more likely to be scammed.
All platforms that require proof of identity (KYC/AL) will not use Darknet URLs.

I am quite confident that your first statement is wrong, you seem to not have any knowledge on how things work server-side. Using Tor DOES increase security and privacy in case you know what you are doing and I am not going to elaborate this subject here, because you could obtain a lot of relevant information on https://torproject.org regarding internet privacy and much more things. Please read everything carefully in order to not spread misinformation next time.

Also, mentioning Tor addresses as "darknet URLs" is quite misleading. A platform that is concerned about users privacy could have clearnet and Tor addresses, because there is nothing wrong giving a user a possibility to hide his real IP address. Platforms that use IP addresses for security measures of preventing account intrusion are literally doing it bad and should be never trusted, this is a very lame way to go.

Anyway thanks all the posters, I've already found some exchanges that at least don't track the IP addresses for security measures and don't block Tor.


Title: Re: Looking for an exchange with .onion address
Post by: malevolent on November 05, 2019, 06:51:11 AM
None that I know of and when I see how they bother us with all the KYC/AML it doesn't make any sense on their side.
As an alternative, you could use a decentralized exchange like Bisq, which uses Tor for end-to-end encrypted communication, or service à la Changely/Flyp.me over Tor

Bitfinex used to have a Tor mirror, and they've been known to require KYC/AML even for cryptocurrency withdrawals.