[tor-talk] [Bitcoin-development] Tor hidden service support

[Bernd]

2012/6/27 Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists at infosecurity.ch>:

> Regarding the addressing, why not use directly the .onion address?

The bitcoin p2p protocol is a binary protocol with packets of fixed
size and structure, the packets that broadcast the addresses of other
known nodes to its connected peers can only contain numeric addresses:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Network_address