How can one remain relatively anonymous while using Ripple?

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Inspired by this and that.

What can an individual that uses Ripple do in order to remain as anonymous as possible? How do Ripple's "anonymity profile" compare to Bitcoin?

One specific difference is that Ripple accounts need XRP to be opened, and that XRP has to come from somewhere, while Bitcoin accounts are free to create.

ripper234

Posted 2013-04-11T16:10:11.083

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Current client doesn't expose it yet, but each account is really an Account Family of un-linkable addresses which can be single use.

https://ripple.com/wiki/Account_Family

Alex Kravets

Posted 2013-04-11T16:10:11.083

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1Damn, those Ripple devs thought of everything! – ripper234 – 2013-04-13T10:16:36.103

2They incorporated all the lessons of bitcoin and more – Alex Kravets – 2013-04-14T05:32:10.127

Wouldn't the trust network give away identities though? – Murch – 2013-08-21T04:06:05.470

It's easy to be anonymous in the crowd trusting a major gateway, real use of human-to-human trust network will have to wait for some serious project to create an easy to understand UI and some actual compelling use for it, which I believe there are plenty of but this stuff is still way ahead of even almost most ripple nerds :-) – Alex Kravets – 2013-08-23T23:18:56.580

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