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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XTs Tor IP blacklist downloading system
 has significant privacy leaks.
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> tl;dr: Yes, Bitcoin XT has a privacy problem with the automatic Tor exit
> node list download.

It's not a bug, it's a feature: These concerns and others were
specifically called out when we rejected this submission to Bitcoin
Core in favor of a more generic approach that lacks the privacy
problems and avoids being explicitly punitave to the use of Tor.

At least it's not a full on block as soon a the node fills for the
first time like the first implementation.