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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Dec \ parent \ on: How do I hide my bitcoin node from the network? bitcoin_beginners
No, why is a risk? Is just an app that sign a tx (I suppose you are using Electrum or Sparrow).
No it can't. Is just a random node. Even if I know your public IP, I can't "hack" your wallet behind that node. I need a "door" to enter and that door is only when you open it (phishing attacks, spyware, malware scanning your keyboard). I think you watched too many "hacker movies"...
You can't know that a bitcoin node have behind 1 or 1000 other clients using its block sync.
No, why is a risk? Is just an app that sign a tx (I suppose you are using Electrum or Sparrow).
The risk is that it will become a hot wallet. I don't use Electrum or Sparrow in this wallet.
Is just a random node.
From what I've read in the past, it's not that random. When the full node connects to peers, it connects to the closest peers and I think it has a limit (maybe configurable, but I think the normal limit is 10).
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I don't use Electrum or Sparrow in this wallet.
Bad.
I think the normal limit is 10
Yes a simple node have a limit of 10 peers. You can increase that limit but that will imply also to open the port 8333 and will have huge impact on your bandwidth used, IP etc. I would not recommend doing that, only if you really want to be a REAL public seeder node.
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