I hear TOR has been under a constant DoS attack.
I've been struggling to connect to robosats.
What do you think of using a VPN instead of TOR?
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VPN does not provide privacy due to the vpn provider will always be able to intercept and gather data.
  • I2P
  • Freenet
Might be more viable solutions someone with better experience need to fill in here for me.
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If TOR is too slow for you, like the other commenter mentioned you can use a VPN but you're just moving the trust assumptions to another company especially when you're paying with something like a credit card for your VPN thats a database entry that can be mapped with your traffic
You can try using something like tunnelsats but you'll need to have bitcoin first lol catch 22 for some people
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If Tor is too slow for you, support it with a donation: https://donate.torproject.org
:)
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What are some of the dangers of chain analysis? It seems to me that if I run my own node and use my own hard cold wallets then I always have plausible deniability about whether or not these sats are mine. Assuming the IRS or some other nefarious entity comes a calling.
I'm curious about other specific scenarios in which chain analysis could be a really bad thing?
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For me the biggest issue with chain analysis is the attack on fungiblity, 1 bitcoin is 1 bitcoin but if authorities are tainting coins for let's say drug trafficking why can't they do that for other things and continue to erode the untainted supply so those with bitcoin can now not get access to liquidity from KYC exchanges
I guess in response it drives more coinjoins P2P transfers and synthetic assets and coupons like your pear credit which isn't the worst fall back, I'm just not a fan of this narrative that there is dirty bitcoin, either its all clean or its all dirty
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