PyBitmessage VS Tor

Not a cryptocurrency or "blockchain", but in Bitmessage it costs small amounts of proof-of-work to send emails, and it works well to prevent spam.

PyBitmessage | Windows, Linux: - https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage)

I submitted the problem and solution to the pybitmessage github and in less than two weeks bitmessage's author allowed an approved user to merge the changes I proposed.

Can you try g1itch's builds as described here: https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/issues/1919

bitmessage.ch, a website that provided email hosting and a bitmessage frontend, has been discontinued. It's unrelated to PyBitmessage, the reference implementation of Bitmessage, which is still very much under active development. As you can see on https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage, the development is still going on and even sped up recently as I'm trying to get better as a project lead. There hasn't been an official release for several years, mainly due to difficulties in getting binaries for Windows and Mac OS built and tested under the more strict development process that we have now. If you know people with devops experience in Windows and MacOS, I'd be helpful for assistance.

More like 3, and the devs sometimes post test builds, but indeed Bitmessage needs some love.

$ git clone https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage

Have a look at session and MuWire for privacy. Also Bitmessage but it should be compiled since last release was 2018.

You could try downloading TOR (www.torproject.org) but some people prefer not to use it because some people think that the TOR people are (bad? cheaters?) 'not good'.

The only difference Private Relay makes to this sequence is that it hides your IP from the website you're visiting in the networking phase by acting as a proxy. This is similar to what TOR does by routing your network traffic through multiple nodes before letting it reach its final destination. This process does not hide which websites you visit from your ISP itself IF they also act as your DNS provider, which is almost universally true.

One of the solutions I've seen mentioned is effectively the TOR network on the blockchain. While this type of solution would not guarantee anonymity it would at least make it more difficult for people to "follow the money" through the network just as the TOR browser makes it difficult for the FBI to follow your web traffic.

The TOR browser (https://www.torproject.org/) will encrypt your request and send it trough three separate servers before it ends up at the destination. It's what whistleblowers use to send info to journalists.

If you need that level of online anonymity you should use a dedicated tool with a solid track record (https://www.torproject.org/, or https://geti2p.net/en/) -- both are free to use by the way.

I use the Tor Browser & launcher direct from the torproject out of preference but the torbrowser launcher is available in the repos.

Tor (probably what you're looking for)

To access onion sites, follow the documentation in the Tor Project. That will tell you everything you should know and it is relatively simple to set up.

Please consider to host the infrastructure on Tor onion services.