I am not an anomnity expert so I asked about the TIPS anomnity service on their latest announcement thread. Although the person who replied has not extensively studied dark coin's dark send service, he seems to know exactly how TIPS anomnity service works.
Is the TIPS coin mixer currently the only non-beta anonymous way to send money to people?
I know darkcoin has something called dark send in beta, and other coins are developing anonymity services, but I cannot find any other coin than TIPS with an anonymity service out of beta. I also heard dark send does not offer anonymity. Does TIPS offer a higher degree of anonymity?
Well the coin mixer is properly working. The beta testing phase ended in early february and it's fully integrated to the wallet since 0.60.
When you check the "Anonymise coins" checkbox in your wallet before sending your coins, they will be sent to a certified node which will mix it twith others and then send it to the person you wanted them send to.
With that process, only you, the receiver (supposedly) and the node knows about your transaction.
As far as I know it is totally anonymous. But I didn't read the critics about Darksend, nor the Darksend description either...
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