DigiByte (DGB) Improves Their Privacy/Security with Dandelion

“DigiByte ups it’s privacy, with Dandelion now being tested on the main DGB network!” Read More — Josiah Spackman, DigiByte Foundation

Summary

Dandelion helps to protect your physical privacy by making it significantly harder to identify where your transaction came from.

Dandelion prevents people from using the IP address that a transaction came from to attempt to locate a person. Dandelion protects your location by making it difficult to ascertain from a transactions source IP address.

Provides built-in protection on the network-layer of the DigiByte blockchain so that people don’t need to rely on TOR or i2p.

Dandelion adds some slight overhead to the transaction as it hops between person to person before being broadcast. But the DigiByte block timing will remain at 15 seconds, completely unaffected.

Significance

There has been a concerning number of kidnappings of public people in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space. The criminals know that the person holds a significant amount of cryptocurrency or raised a large amount and they attempt to extort the funds with the threat of violence. This forces people to hand over private keys or send significant amounts of crypto to avoid harm.

If these criminals are able to identify people by IP address, they could potentially use it in an attempt to physically track them down. While tech-savvy entrepreneurs will mask their IP via TOR, I2p or VPNs, the addition of Dandelion ensures that even if those safeguards are not activated, the IP address is still masked.

Dandelion is currently on the DigiByte testnet before the company does a full launch to their mainnet.

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