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Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isnât a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)



Mike Perry wrote:

> I skimmed this paper this morning, and the crux of the attack is the
> interplay of the Bitcoin DoS protection mechanisms and the limited
> supply of Tor Exit IPs.

Could this situation be improved if people ran limited exit nodes that only
alloed the bitcoin p2p protocol to exit? I for one don't have enough
fireproof underwear to run a full exit node, but my node does allow
bitcoin/litecoin/darkcoin/anoncoin to exit.

Cheers,
Erik
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