I got interested in Anoncoins when reading the infrastructure can be run within I2P only. I had installed it yesterday already, but today went ahead and actually tried to get it to run, also.

I’m not sure how established this currency is, but Bitcoin does not provide much of anonymity. At least it’s not build-in. Crypto-currencies are fascinating on its own, but having a crypto-currency in an anonymous network might be a rather big step actually.

I have written down my notes on a howto-page, which I will extend as I find out more. Meanwhile some other interesting stuff. There seems to be a multitude of cryptocurrencies these days. Like more than 10 or so. While I stumpled upon Anoncoin before, I basically only was conscious about Bitcoin. I guess I while have to do some meta-research on the whole topic. My current plan was rather simple and already turned out to be hard ….

I have a code from PaySafeCard lying around that I wanted to invest into buying Bitcoins. However, it turns out that’s not so easy. Besides my usual problem, that many sites require js to work, I actually wasn’t able to find any market place to offer that. Seems the whole anonymous money thing is harder than I thought.

If you know about ways to do such an exchange, please let me know. Scams I hear you coming ;) But sorting that out is part of the process I guess. At least I read a lot about scam and rather am the paranoid type ;) So pretty curious myself if/how this will go down …