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I2P interest and development has grown with the direct monetization path of more anonymous cryptocurrencies that have attempted to partner with I2P over the yea

I2P interest and development has grown with the direct monetization path of more anonymous cryptocurrencies that have attempted to partner with I2P over the years, such as Monero There have been other cryptocurrencies that had the ethos of being anonymous, such as "anoncoin" but functioned exactly like bitcoin and never was able to develop their obfuscation layer It is all still in its infancy

616c 10y ago
Has it? I had not heard of Monero. You got stuff I can read? I am curious about the I2P culture, if you are in the know.
- cloudjacker 10y ago
  None of the cryptocurrency communities have successfully integrated with I2P. The primary goal being to include a native I2P routing client within all of the respective cryptocurrency's daemon's and client software. (Most cryptocurrencies broadcast a lot of information about you to the nodes, and when you really dive into it, the result is a little unsettling. In this regard it is kind of like bittorrent where other peers in the network can see information about you.) As far as formal partnerships go, Anoncoin was the closest, where they got some public mention from the I2P stewards, and had icons on the I2P dashboard when you logged into that darknet. Anoncoin's steward disappeared with an unsuccessful zerocoin implementation and exit scam. This was 2014. Monero is an opaque blockchain that has worked out of the box as a private cryptocurrency since early 2014. My cryptocurrency market capitalization, it has remained around #10 for two years. It is one of the more actively developed cryptocurrencies, and I2P integration is still on their roadmap. There's nothing else to really say about I2P. There hasn't been much public research into how it works or vulnerabilities, as with the TOR network. I understand it works quite a bit differently, and what I do know is appealing. But it is currently "meh". Some sites that are super annoying to TOR users, work extremely well under I2P and don't detect that you are not a clearnet user.
  - 616c 10y ago
    I had the same reaction, but largely because I2P is under the radar; Tor gets a lot more attention, in both the good ways and bad.
- plasticmachine 10y ago
  Monero has got an I2P router in C++ as one of their projects: https://github.com/monero-project/kovri https://github.com/monero-project/kovri If you want some general information on Monero then this is a good talk on Bitcoin privacy and on what Monero is and does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlQE-ObEXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlQE-ObEXk

616c 10y ago

Has it? I had not heard of Monero. You got stuff I can read? I am curious about the I2P culture, if you are in the know.

cloudjacker 10y ago
None of the cryptocurrency communities have successfully integrated with I2P. The primary goal being to include a native I2P routing client within all of the respective cryptocurrency's daemon's and client software. (Most cryptocurrencies broadcast a lot of information about you to the nodes, and when you really dive into it, the result is a little unsettling. In this regard it is kind of like bittorrent where other peers in the network can see information about you.) As far as formal partnerships go, Anoncoin was the closest, where they got some public mention from the I2P stewards, and had icons on the I2P dashboard when you logged into that darknet. Anoncoin's steward disappeared with an unsuccessful zerocoin implementation and exit scam. This was 2014. Monero is an opaque blockchain that has worked out of the box as a private cryptocurrency since early 2014. My cryptocurrency market capitalization, it has remained around #10 for two years. It is one of the more actively developed cryptocurrencies, and I2P integration is still on their roadmap. There's nothing else to really say about I2P. There hasn't been much public research into how it works or vulnerabilities, as with the TOR network. I understand it works quite a bit differently, and what I do know is appealing. But it is currently "meh". Some sites that are super annoying to TOR users, work extremely well under I2P and don't detect that you are not a clearnet user.
- 616c 10y ago
  I had the same reaction, but largely because I2P is under the radar; Tor gets a lot more attention, in both the good ways and bad.
plasticmachine 10y ago
Monero has got an I2P router in C++ as one of their projects: https://github.com/monero-project/kovri https://github.com/monero-project/kovri If you want some general information on Monero then this is a good talk on Bitcoin privacy and on what Monero is and does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlQE-ObEXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlQE-ObEXk