Fresh Startup Comes with Double VPN Hops

Complete with muppets and women

At first, this concept might seem like one that demands a serious working atmosphere. However, in the spirit of the new, Doublehop.me adds a significant amount of humor to their all-new service. The connections themselves you establish are dubbed Cryptoparties, their visuality complete with muppets and women. This looseness is also present in the videos the company put out, yet again enlisting the help of a woman with a giant, tagged and pencil-tattooed banana. Even the description of their privacy policy contains some internet slang and playful language!

Thanks to the Bitcoins support, when you place an order, only your e-mail address is collected as information. Additionally, the following data are kept for 72 hours after an order, for troubleshooting: order ID, email (or telegram#), payment status, order totals in BTC (Bitcoins) and USD, BTC/USD exchange rate, the Bitcoin address you were required to pay with, and timestamp. This is not that bad.

Double hopping all the way

So what Doublehop.me excels in is… double hopping. Their unique way of connecting to locations is by introducing another location. For example, you can connect to the Netherlands from any country via the USA. First, you establish a VPN connection to the USA, and from there it exits to the Netherlands. This is quite a safe ride, as it essentially doubles your safety. To quote the official website, Doublehop.me uses “AES-256 encryption between clients and nodes with RSA-4096 for key exchange and certificates”. This is the current top-level security. Imagine it twice as strong.

In our opinion, this is very appealing. We presume you will face some speed reduction because of the encryptions, but we can claim that Doublehop.me rivals, if not surpasses the safety of the well established, grown VPN companies. While still being in the beta stage, this is just straight impressive, and we hope to hear a lot more from this ambitious bunch of people in the future.