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

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 10:00:00 UTC 2012


>> Regarding the addressing, why not use directly the .onion address?
>
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Network_address
>
> Unfortunately, this addressing scheme apparently cannot accommodate
> other anonymous networks, such as I2P, that uses 256 bits for its
> Base-32 addresses.

There are some related I2P bits in the bitcoin code. I've not
looked to see what is their scope.

256 bits - A tough interop problem for sure. It seems maybe
a worthy long term goal for the projects to sort out.


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