About Whir

Ever since it appeared, bitcoin has been positioned as a groundbreaking method for transferring money and paying for goods and services anonymously.

But in practice, bitcoin is not anonymous. 

Every bitcoin transaction ends up on the publicly accessible blockchain. The records themselves do not carry the name of the sender or the receiver. What they do contain is the wallet address, its balance, and the full history of incoming and outgoing transfers. 

At first, your wallet address is in no way tied to who you are. The moment somebody learns that it belongs to you, however, your balance and your prior transactions become readable by them.

To sidestep this problem, you can turn to Whir — a service that leverages bitcoin's own coin mixing technique known as CoinJoin. 

CoinJoin merges several payments coming from a number of different senders into one combined transaction, which makes it considerably harder for outsiders to figure out which sender actually paid which recipient. 

A handy analogy is a group of people dropping their cash into one common wallet and heading off to do their shopping together. Each one of them only spends their own share of the money, yet the actual notes they end up using are not necessarily the same bills they originally tossed into the wallet.

Whir is both simple and user-friendly. Just specify the recipient's wallet and the amount you'd like to send — Whir takes care of everything else.