Re: Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting

Why does Hearn want to cram huge controversial poison-pill commits into XT along with the popular blocksize commit of Gavin's is the real question.

It's like those politicians cramming all the surveillance shit in the "Schumer Bill For The Protection of Widows Orphans and Kiddies."

Its a rule that you can turn off anytime. Reason its a controversy because someone make it be.

The XT was under DDoS attack, he had to write a defense mechanism quick. This feature does not affect anyone's privacy. You cant let emotion and prejudice to blind you

It logs your IP and potentially puts it on a blacklist, even if you're on tor or a proxy. That is the definition of compromising privacy.

Yet you cant back your statement with a code right?

Yup thats what i guess

Here is the code https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt/commit/73c9efe74c5cc8faea9c2b2c785a2f5b68aa4c23

Read it, actually click on the view button so you see all of it for each part of the program.

You can't point to a part that do what you say it is doing? Just look at the code? Just point... For now you posted this that is not in a code

//! Whether this peer should be disconnected and banned (unless whitelisted).
bool fShouldBan;