Tor Integrated by OpenBazaar Increassing Anonymity for Bitcoin Marketplace
Earlier this month, a Tor pull request “Tor #342” was submitted to OpenBazaar’s open source code repository on Github with an aim of providing increased anonymity and privacy to users on the OpenBazaar bitcoin marketplace. On February 15, the OpenBazaar development team officially completed the review and merging process of the pull request, integrating Tor into the network. The integration of Tor is a part of a larger network reconstruction led by the OpenBazaar development team in order to increase efficiency of the network, change the coding language of the platform, introduce built-in....
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