can any of the other coins be used with TOR and those other ones like ip2 etc? is this the first coin that is specifically designed for use with this kind of thing?
Bitcoin has/had a version with I2P support. But all coins should support TOR via the SOCKS protocol. This coin is aiming to have both I2P and onion (TOR) nodes to connect to, which can make you anonymous if you do it right.
Here is the forum thread for the Bitcoin client that supported I2P,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151181.0Yes i like the idea i'm mining it now with and now some coins are coming in too.