As far as I can tell most buyers and vendors here (if not all) use bitcoinfog as their method to tumble and anonymize their BTC, for peace of mind that they will not fall under blockchain analysis if SR goes down and their address('s) are given to LE. Maybe I've just been smoking too much weed today but can we really trust them? I think it would be a lot healtheir for the community to see some competition in TOR tumbling hidden services, with various sites offering new and novel different way to tumble their BTC.
They seem to do an excellent job if used right, but if the methods they use to tumble are following a simple algorithm then anyone who knows how it is coded could surely work out and link the in addresses to the out addresses pretty easily, which would render it a major issue in terms of remaining anonymous ?
As another paranoid thought it's ocurred to me that since BCF always sends out a very exact amount to the satochi level, to the eight sig fig minimum. That's a potential 10 million unique amounts connected to every address you use, which if stored and searched for in the blockchain could make any address that uses bitcoin fog easily found ... right ? Or wrong ?
Luckily I guess using BCF is not synonymous with using SR, but it's at least is a strong inference you may have been.
Ways round this might be using darkcoin (a self tumbling coin) or using a tumbling service where you can write your own tumbling algorithm, but as far as I can tell there is only the one TOR based tumbling service (bitcoinfog), which to me seems like a very centralized point of failure for the anonymity of SR users bitcoins.
Thoughts?
