[ANNOUNCE] TORwallet - anonymous mixing wallet service

[Gladamas]

Torwallet, would it be possible to show if your wallet's coins have been mixed by others, before mixing them yourself?

[niko]

Very nice! Thank you for creating this. If I were starting any sort of new Bitcoin venture, it would likely be Tor accessible only. We really need to migrate to Onionland, IMO.

If we're legal and COM/ORG/NET land doesn't have a problem, then why?

Because we won't be legal forever. I'd be willing to bet cash money FedGov attacks Bitcoin within 3-5 years.

Why would they wait? It's not like they are strangers to attacking the small, helpless, and weak...

[TORwallet]

Torwallet, would it be possible to show if your wallet's coins have been mixed by others, before mixing them yourself?

That would require us to keep records of transactions in order to know which ones get mixed.

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We've added an option to delete a TORwallet once you are done with it. Deleting removes the database record for the wallet and will allow us to purge the private key in the future.

[TORwallet]

TORwallet is now accessible without Tor!

We have set up a clearnet website at http://torwallet.net/

The server is a tcp proxy with port 443 forwarded through tor using socat. Anyone hacking or seizing it will get nothing more than an HTML page. We purchased it anonymously through tor with bitcoins so there is no trail leading back to us.

We hope that this will get you to use us as not only a mixer, but a regular wallet as well.

[niko]

We hope that this will get you to use us as not only a mixer, but a regular wallet as well.

Why would you hope for that?

[TORwallet]

We hope that this will get you to use us as not only a mixer, but a regular wallet as well.

Why would you hope for that?

It increases our mixing pool and legitimizes outbound coins from our service. Our goal is to be widely used for all types of transactions and mix all the coins together, completely disabling the concept of tainted coins.

[marcus_of_augustus]

All your monies are tainted already, I thought everybody knew that? .... they don't call it filthy lucre for nothing!

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's .... " you know the rest.

[TORwallet]

We just experienced about an hour of down time. We thought it would be a good idea to configure Tor as a relay to increase security, but it used up all the ram on the server and we had to reboot it.

Please do not worry if you had deposits. We are here for the long term.

[Raoul Duke]

We just experienced about an hour of down time. We thought it would be a good idea to configure Tor as a relay to increase security, but it used up all the ram on the server and we had to reboot it.

Please do not worry if you had deposits. We are here for the long term.

This might help you: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayMemory

[Gladamas]

We thought it would be a good idea to configure Tor as a relay to increase security.

Wouldn't that increase the likelihood that someone finds out your server's IP address/location?

[TORwallet]

We thought it would be a good idea to configure Tor as a relay to increase security.

Wouldn't that increase the likelihood that someone finds out your server's IP address/location?

Not unless someone decides to hack or raid every tor relay. Being a relay mixes your traffic in with other people's traffic, making it more difficult to do timing and correlation attacks.

[Bitcoin Oz]

TORwallet is now accessible without Tor!

We have set up a clearnet website at http://torwallet.net/

The server is a tcp proxy with port 443 forwarded through tor using socat. Anyone hacking or seizing it will get nothing more than an HTML page. We purchased it anonymously through tor with bitcoins so there is no trail leading back to us.

We hope that this will get you to use us as not only a mixer, but a regular wallet as well.

Silk Road should do that

[topikwm]

I am confused by only one point. URL-s easy to sniff.

[HostFat]

Silk Road should do that

You can use tor2web.org or onion.to services

[Gladamas]

I am confused by only one point. URL-s easy to sniff.

The URLs are pretty much random and brute-forcing to find one with money in it would take many thousands of years.

[vuce]

I am confused by only one point. URL-s easy to sniff.

Only if you're not using https.

[Gladamas]

I am confused by only one point. URL-s easy to sniff.

Only if you're not using https.

^^ This. And I believe Tor also encrypts your data.

[topikwm]

You do not understand what I mean, here is an example for "instawallet"

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:instawallet.org+w&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=active&prmd=imvns&psj=1&ei=dRbiT9m2G4eMsgb26NBw&start=50&sa=N&filter=0&biw=1411&bih=773&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb

it makes no difference

[vuce]

You do not understand what I mean, here is an example for "instawallet"

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:instawallet.org+w&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=active&prmd=imvns&psj=1&ei=dRbiT9m2G4eMsgb26NBw&start=50&sa=N&filter=0&biw=1411&bih=773&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb

it makes no difference

I don't understand what you're trying to say. When you visit a site over https the url is encrypted, no one can see what it is.

[rjk]

You do not understand what I mean, here is an example for "instawallet"

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:instawallet.org+w&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=active&prmd=imvns&psj=1&ei=dRbiT9m2G4eMsgb26NBw&start=50&sa=N&filter=0&biw=1411&bih=773&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb

it makes no difference

I don't understand what you're trying to say. When you visit a site over https the url is encrypted, no one can see what it is.

And there's no way Google can crawl it unless you post a link somewhere.