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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history)
by
entertheabyss
on 18/06/2015, 03:34:18 UTC
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The issue with cryptonote coins is that the server must run a node anonymously. Bitcoin based altcoins can be run over tor, monero etc cannot. This increases the risk of demasking.

Currently CryptoCurrency Exchanges are under increasing regulatory pressure. This Exchange will provide trading services for those traders who don't with to be lawskeyd. Also we are are interested at some point in the future to provide a desktop client similar to MetaTrader that will have i2pd embedded so anyone can trade any coin easily and anonymously without ever having to put any effort into technical computer configurations.

It can be done.

Exchange.I2P Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1092682

According to this Monero isnt going to be listed. At least at the start.

His reasoning can be found below. Perhaps one of the XMR core devs can inquire further and find a solution:

"The issue with cryptonote coins is that the server must run a node anonymously. Bitcoin based altcoins can be run over tor, monero etc cannot. This increases the risk of demasking."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=227287.msg11646812#msg11646812

Run your node inside whonix or another torified VM

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/31ciuf/questions_running_monero_over_whonix/

If you don't have the technical expertise to set this up, I'd question whether you should be running a "dark" exchange at all..
Replied on monero thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg11647580#msg11647580