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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @ama 9 Dec \ on: How do I hide my bitcoin node from the network? bitcoin_beginners
Why not use tor instead?
I'm asking because I don't know. Explain how it's done and the advantages and disadvantages of using tor.
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Bitcoin Core includes Tor integration
When Tor is correctly setup on your system, Bitcoin Core automatically identifies Tor and creates an anonymous service. Little configuration is required to be 'off the grid' and, just a tiny bit more to be completely anonymous if that is important to you, with none of your Bitcoin traffic reaching out onto the public internet.
Using these steps you can be anonymous in only five minutes.
With the full privacy setup, transactions will of course still be broadcast but will only be broadcast actually onto the public internet by other Bitcoin nodes. With the standard 'off-the-grid' Tor setup, your Bitcoin traffic will be routed through the anonymous Tor network before reaching the public internet and other Bitcoin nodes on and off the Tor network to be effectively untraceable.
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Doesn't using TOR have any disadvantages?
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This isn't keeping your system dark, it's just drawing attention to it as a Tor peer. This person didn't understand the assignment.
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For a private core node only, no disadvantages. As a private node (that only sync blocks from others and only add a tx to a block when you do it for yourself) the Tor connection is not making it slower or less available. If you lost a connection, you can wait a bit more for the next ones, not a big deal.
Things changes when you want to be a PUBLIC node that share more than leech, because you will have to be a reliable, fast and 24/7 online node SERVING the blocks sync fast.
Please make the difference between PUBLIC and PRIVATE nodes. Many people are confused, thinking that if they just run a bitcoincore node at home in full sync, automatically became a so called "Full Node". It is not like that, is a misconception.
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