Thrilled to have research legend and Spiral BTC grantee 0xB10C join us to dig into an attack against the privacy of Bitcoin nodes happening *right now* that most don't know about🎙️
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ZkKzXdwAkaJv?s=20
Not only will we unpack what the attack is and how it's happening, we'll talk about next steps for how you can protect yourself against it and preserve your privacy when running a Bitcoin node.
If you run a node you'll want to tune in live or listen to the podcast feed later if you can't make it:
0x is an amazing person and has been doing fantastic work behind the scenes on Bitcoin, so I can't wait to learn from him and figure out more about an attack happening against our Bitcoin nodes.
Good evidence that a new entity is surveilling all transactions and tying originating node IPs to them, but I'll let 0x get into the details Tuesday 👀
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Interesting, wouldn't this attack only apply to clearnet nodes? Tor nodes shouldn't be able to leak IP right?
Tor nodes are easier to Sybil attack/eclipse attack but would at least protect your source IP, protecting rough geography etc.
We'll go into detail for sure on prevention mechanisms 🙂
