{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/voisine/breadwallet/issues/178","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/voisine/breadwallet/issues/178/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/voisine/breadwallet/issues/178/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/voisine/breadwallet/issues/178/events","html_url":"https://github.com/voisine/breadwallet/issues/178","id":65524446,"number":178,"title":"Tor integration (and other Privacy-enhancing technologies)","user":{"login":"eragmus","id":11140618,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11140618?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus","html_url":"https://github.com/eragmus","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eragmus/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-03-31T19:11:36Z","updated_at":"2015-03-31T19:11:36Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hello,\r\n\r\nCan we integrate Tor into breadwallet?\r\n\r\nThis is a fairly obvious request and one that I feel must have been suggested before. But, upon a cursory glance, I do not see this officially suggested nor debated!\r\n\r\nSPV is great, but the downside is that random nodes from the Bitcoin network are contacted to propagate payments. These nodes may be benign or malicious, SPV does not know (and until the latest update of breadwallet addressing tarpit nodes, it did not distinguish good from bad). Besides stalling transactions, nodes may surveil the network and attempt to build profiles via IP addresses among other information. To hinder that surveillance and increase privacy of breadwallet, I think it's high priority to integrate Tor (or something else as effective, but Tor seems by and large the most recommended) in a seamless and automatic manner.\r\n\r\nAdding on about the privacy aspect, there are other technologies (developed or in development) that would be great:\r\n- Stealth addresses (like darkwallet)\r\n- Coinjoin (like darkwallet)\r\n- Threshold signatures (https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/stevenag/threshold-signatures-for-bitcoin-wallets-are-finally-here/)\r\n- Merge avoidance\r\n- Coinshuffle\r\n- Techniques/Technologies listed here: https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/DarkWallet/Best_practices\r\n- etc etc, too many more up-and-coming technologies to mention...\r\n\r\nPrivacy (and Security) must be paramount (a solid foundation must be built), otherwise it's counterproductive to propagate Bitcoin to the masses, and then deal with negative repercussions and bad PR down the road."}}