[tor-talk] [ZS] Re: Can one make money running anonymity services?

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On 30/06/12 20:29, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote:

>>> After all, SR is on TOR. Maybe reading their FAQ helps. Hint:
>>> Use a Tumbler.
>> I've no idea what "SR" is. "Tumbler" sounds like some sort of 
>> mixing/laundering service. Which would require a *lot* of people
>> to use it in order for it to work in any meaningful way. If you
>> know of such a service that has maybe 50,000 people or more using
>> it daily, please let me know. My guess is that they all have
>> several orders of magnitude fewer users. I'm not a fan of pretend
>> anonymity.
> Not really. You should learn more about Bitcoin.

My research indicates it's exactly what I thought it was. No matter
how much you "mix" your coins with X other people, all you're doing is
making it so that if anyone wants to trace the origin of those coins,
instead of it leading directly back to you, it leads directly back to
a group of X people, including you. If X isn't sufficiently large, it
becomes a pointless exercise. There's no way X is large enough to
offer any sort of meaningful protection.

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