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Board Electrum
Re: Noob question about Electrum
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bob123
on 01/06/2018, 09:20:17 UTC
".onion names are used to provide access to end to end encrypted, secure, anonymized services; that is, the identity and location of the server is obscured from the client. The location of the client is obscured from the server."
Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-onion-site-and-why-are-they-used

It might be worthy to add that 'only' using TOR doesn't obscure everything enough to never be found/tracked.
While using the TOR browser does help a lot, the privacy also highly depends on the user.



Can someone please tell me why bitcoin mixers seem typically seem to have both a darknet and clearnet address? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but just now I can't imagine what the point is.

The whole point is privacy.
Thats also the same reason why some mixing services (eg. ChipMixer) do offer a non-java script mixing service. Reducing the graphical animation, increasing the privacy.