📅 Original date posted:2014-01-16
📝 Original message:On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 23:51 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
...
> 3) SPV wallets that want to get a good mix of nodes for measuring
> pending transactions identify nodes on the clearnet via their addr
> announcements+service flag, in the normal way. They select some of
> these nodes using the standard clearnet anti-sybil heuristics and
> connect without using Tor. They proceed to query them for their hidden
The SPV node could connect to the IP using Tor. It would preserve the
privacy of the SPV node - hard to see it's running Bitcoin. It also
reduces the ability of an attacker to MITM because the routing varies
with each exit node.
Miron [ARCHIVE] /
npub1me…amfwn
2023-06-07 15:12:10
in reply to nevent1q…av6m
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