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Event October 3, 2026 Added October 3, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Half of Bitcoin's reachable nodes are on Tor: why do they hide their addresses?

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Nicholas Bohm

On October 3, 2026, 12,524 of the 25,501 Bitcoin addresses a crawler could reach were Tor onions. What the count measures, how it grew from Satoshi's 2009 proxy line, and why nodes hide their IP.