Quote from: cleanthoseteeth on November 13, 2017, 03:53:43 PM

correct me if i'm wrong, verge is pretty much just bitcoin via tor? ...

Nope, you're right... it's still just BitCoin over Tor at this point. For a brief overview of 'privacy' CC, the privacy wiki is worth a check:

https://np.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/cryptocurrency#wiki_verge

"Verge is basically Bitcoin + Tor. There is no reason to use Verge over Bitcoin + Tor. Their "wraith protocol" uses optional stealth addresses, which are mostly ineffective alone."

It should be noted that the WP hasn't added stealth addresses yet and since the launch of WP was a wash, Justin has said he's done with countdowns, etc so there's no guarantee as to when SAs will actually be added. People can call that fact 'FUD', because of the doubt of when it will be released, but the fact of the matter is it's true unfortunately.

If you're speculating & storing and not making daily tx, etc so tx fees aren't an issue, BitCoin has better security because of integration with things like hardware wallets or w/ TAILS 1.3.x+ (Operating System version which has been out since early 2015 and is now on 3.2) has a built-in Electrum BitCoin wallet (and all TAILS traffic routes over Tor) and on top of the security of using TAILS that wallet is more likely to have more contributors, etc to ensure it gets quick/more security updates, improvements, independent code reviews, etc compared to a Verge Electrum wallet.

It should be noted again though, that neither BitCoin or Verge offer ledger privacy at the moment which as highlighted earlier is a concern if you don't want people to know exactly how much $ you receive/send from exactly where from/to and exactly when.

Edit: sp