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I think tor is great and have been playing with it for years.

I'm assuming you run a bitcoin client rather than using a web wallet. If that is the case, you should consider setting up a tor hidden service.  Right now I believe the only two hidden services online are run by me.

It's really easy to do. I'm sure you already know how considering the number of nodes you run.  Just in case though, all you have to do is add 2 lines to your torrc.


The list is of nodes is at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fallback_Nodes#Tor_nodes, but like I said, mine are the only 2 that seem to be online.

Awesome. It works!

As you might have read in the news, Iran is blocking all encrypted (SSL/HTTPS) traffic. We've been able to set up obfuscated proxies for Tor bridges on two of our Gbit servers. Tor usually sees hundreds of thousands of Iran users (2nd largest user group!), but I am proud that today over 150 Iranians found their way through our servers. Thank you! Without your donations, this would not be possible!

So the newest next-test from luke-jr has a bunch of code in it for Tor hidden services.  I updated my server with it and now I have this in my conf


You can also do addnode or connect directly to .onion instead of having to add a bunch of mapaddress lines to your torrc.  It's been working well for me.  36 connections right now.

Yup.  No need to require everybody, though. Just a few people (like me and you) need nodes that connect Torland to the Internet.  My node is setup to talk to both networks.

I understand that's not needed to.
But this is great news. I've always thought that running bitcoin behind Tor should be a "recommended practice", pretty much like using different address for each transaction. The only problem was that the more people following such practice, the less listening nodes we'd get.
Not a problem anymore with this patch you talk about.

I hope this patched is merged in the main version soon.

By the way, I've never created a Tor hidden service. Is is something simple? And by simple, I mean something that an average computer user could do, like, is there a wizard install and all? If you have to go though text files, most people would just give up.
If there's such a thing, it would be a good idea to start releasing a bitcoin+Tor* bundle that configures everything and launches your bitcoin already behind a hidden service.

* I say Tor but I guess it could be I2P too... whichever is easier.

No wizards.  All you do is add 2 lines to your torrc and you have a hidden service.


Then you reload Tor, and 'catvar/lib/tor/hidden_coin/hostname'

To get bitcoin to use this, just add a couple lines to your bitcoin.conf


The .onion in this example is me, it will obviously be something different for you.

They can feel free to sniff my encrypted traffic.  And if you are really paranoid, run https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

Swedish exits upgraded to 300 Mbit/s.

https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=8543536f43e4dfd33bfe89204c315515d4de8b01
https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=1a7a34fd161eef2320728e79fb56391660329955

New Luxembourg 100 Mbit/s exit:

https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=372d36900e37171a5e38653a2af4aa5c1c51ff45

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