About Whir

From the very beginning, bitcoin has been presented as a groundbreaking way to transfer funds and purchase goods and services without revealing your identity.

In reality, bitcoin is not anonymous. 

Every bitcoin transaction is recorded on the publicly visible blockchain. These records do not contain the names of senders or recipients. Instead, each entry shows the wallet address, its current balance, and a full history of transfers. 

At first, your wallet address has no connection to your personal identity. Yet the moment anyone learns your wallet address, they gain access to your balance and the full history of your past transactions.

To protect yourself from this, you can rely on Whir — a service built around bitcoin's native coin mixing method CoinJoin. 

CoinJoin merges payments from several different senders into one combined transaction, making it considerably harder for third parties to trace which sender paid which recipient. 

Think of it as a group of people pooling their funds into a joint wallet before heading out to shop. Each person spends only their own share, but no one ends up using the exact same bills they originally placed into that shared wallet.

Whir is straightforward and simple to use. Just provide the destination wallet and the amount you wish to send, and Whir handles everything else.