About Whir

Since its invention, bitcoin has been promoted as an innovative way to move money and pay for goods and services anonymously.

In reality, bitcoin is not anonymous.

All bitcoin transactions are stored in the publicly accessible blockchain. The transactions do not contain either the sender's or the recipient's name. Instead, they consist of the address of the wallet, the balance and the history of the transfers.

First of all, the address of your wallet is not linked to your identity. However, once someone knows your wallet address, they can recognize your account balance and your past transactions.

To avoid this, you can use Whir - a service that uses Bitcoin's own coin mixing method, CoinJoin.

CoinJoin combines multiple payments from multiple donors into a single transaction to make it harder for outsiders to determine which donor paid which recipient.

This method can be compared to a group of people who put their money in a common wallet and go shopping. While each spends only the amount due to them, buyers will not necessarily use exactly the bills they put in the shared wallet.

Whir is simple and convenient. Just enter the recipient's wallet and the amount you want to send, and Whir will do the rest.