Bitcoin & Anonymity

[Saidasun]

I stand corrected on both counts.

Re: VPN's I have to do some research and a possible comparison between VPN and TOR.

Its simple you should be looking for VPN providers that do not keep logs but that is hard to find because any company can claim they do not keep logs but do with Tor there is a risk to because anyone owning the exit node will be able to look at the incoming and outgoing traffic. Tor is probably better in most situations but if you can find a VPN which does not keep logs then that is just as good but its proving it which is difficult.

[Magicalking]

I stand corrected on both counts.

Re: VPN's I have to do some research and a possible comparison between VPN and TOR.

Its simple you should be looking for VPN providers that do not keep logs but that is hard to find because any company can claim they do not keep logs but do with Tor there is a risk to because anyone owning the exit node will be able to look at the incoming and outgoing traffic. Tor is probably better in most situations but if you can find a VPN which does not keep logs then that is just as good but its proving it which is difficult.

I don't have an idea about VPNs and Tor network. I thought they are used by hackers who do not want to be found. What do you think of privacy coins? Does it make sense to buy privacy coins on a exchange?

[ranochigo]

Its simple you should be looking for VPN providers that do not keep logs but that is hard to find because any company can claim they do not keep logs but do with Tor there is a risk to because anyone owning the exit node will be able to look at the incoming and outgoing traffic. Tor is probably better in most situations but if you can find a VPN which does not keep logs then that is just as good but its proving it which is difficult.

Not necessarily. Malicious exit nodes can try to strip the TLS but it's probably quite ineffective in most scenarios because Tor always hardens and tries to enforce TLS. Onion addresses are not susceptible to this.

The only way for exit nodes to break the privacy is through analysing plain-text connections or through masquerading with a valid certificate. Otherwise, the exit node cannot determine the origin using the traffic alone. Solely going by this, Tor is better than VPN in terms of privacy. The VPN can do what a malicious exit node can try to do as well.

[GeorgeJohn]

Its simple you should be looking for VPN providers that do not keep logs but that is hard to find because any company can claim they do not keep logs but do with Tor there is a risk to because anyone owning the exit node will be able to look at the incoming and outgoing traffic. Tor is probably better in most situations but if you can find a VPN which does not keep logs then that is just as good but its proving it which is difficult.

I don't have an idea about VPNs and Tor network. I thought they are used by hackers who do not want to be found. What do you think of privacy coins? Does it make sense to buy privacy coins on a exchange?

I think only work this VPN does is to protect the Ip address or location of the phone so that it will not be detect, so i don't really think that this have to do anything with coin transactions or exchanging of any cryptocurrency, except in a situation that the transaction you want to form is illegal.

[DdmrDdmr]

I don't have an idea about VPNs and Tor network. I thought they are used by hackers who do not want to be found. <…>

Not really. The vast amount of user are likely legit, and do it due to privacy concerns. Bear in mind that you connect to a ton of sites each day, and that IPs can be ultimately used to geolocate you. You don’t necessarily want sites to know where you are from.

In some instances, ISPs may be required to provide information on you (due to court orders where the procedure is respected, if not skipped by some direct government requirement in loose countries). I recall a case of torrent users receiving lawyer letters claiming a certain amount of money to avoid being sue for downloading episodes from a certain pay-per-view tv series. The layers went through court, and obtained data from ISPs for bags of given IPs. Granted that technically, the series should not have been downloaded, but even so. Now take this example a step further and assume other ungreateful examples that once could potentially device. The idea is to shield yourself, even if strictly because you are 100% legit type person (hey, who's not?), but want your privacy respected (i.e. not Facebook/Instagram type profiles).