Quote from: QTC on January 23, 2012, 08:23 pmQuote from: Looker on January 23, 2012, 08:13 pmBitcoing is an interesting thing in and of itself, it seems recently people are suggesting that bitcoin isn't anonymous and people should be leery of it. This being said I think it's fair to assume that is more applicable if people are not using it behind tor? I guess I fail to see how bitcoin would create any kind of paper trail to someone if sending and recieving is proxied through tor no?Bitcoin is not anonymous, and in fact was designed to have the financial transfer topology be public to prevent counterfeiting. Tor can provide network level untraceability but not unlinkability, which is imho the key part of anonymity (although I am sure you will find differing opinions on this part). Ultimately, unless you use a blind mixing service, you are as anonymous as the method you used to purchase the bitcoins and whatever method is used to cash them out. (Also not using blind mixes makes you susceptible to various financial intelligence attacks but that is of more interest to vendors than occasional buyers.) I have elaborated upon this in previous posts and am too lazy to dig up the link, sorry.Precisely, couldn't have said it better.