Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea · HackerPapers discussions

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea — mentioned by holmesworcester

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:55:36 GMT

I'm one of the 5 participants elected to this grantmaking body and entrusted with getting it started. My background is as an activist for privacy and freedom online. I co-founded the organization Fight for the Future (https://fightforthefuture.org/) and co-ran it from 2011 to early 2018, through the SOPA/PIPA fights, the Snowden revelations, and the net neutrality battles in the US and EU. I got interested in Zcash when I started building an experimental messaging app and marketplace (https://zbay.app). The main thing I'd want anyone reading to take away from the thread is that: 1. Zcash is…

Paper and discussion history. A mention is not an endorsement.

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea — mentioned by socrates1024

Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:29:33 GMT

It would be great to have a decentralized relay network! Right now this is a centralized bandaid solution, which is unfortunately necessary because of many well-known vulnerabilities of Bitcoin's p2p layer. E.g. - Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/578 - Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079.pdf

Paper and discussion history. A mention is not an endorsement.

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea — mentioned by thomasrossi

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:58:37 GMT

definitely not trust-worthy:) http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6079

Paper and discussion history. A mention is not an endorsement.

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea — HN submission

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:15:44 GMT

Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea

162 points; 36 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.