[tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

Артур Истомин art.istom at yandex.ru
Tue Oct 28 12:59:37 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:58:56PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
> <mle+tools at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> 
> http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6079v1.pdf
> 
> > 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
> 
> There are about ten exit nodes that do only this today.
> [One of which is run by Mike Hearn who has advocated building in
> censorship capabilities to Tor, and blocking (historically) tainted coins
> (such as you have now or might receive through otherwise completely
> innocent transactions with you, or from your own trans/mixing with
> others).]

How it affect innocent bitcoin users with tainted bitcoins? Bitcoins
come back to user' wallets?


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