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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Can operating a Bitcoin node make you a target?
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Soros Shorts
on 05/12/2016, 11:45:49 UTC
alot of people think "use proxies". but that only protects the end user from knowing the source user..
ISP's will still know because they are packet sniffing the source user not the destination



Well you could use a reverse-proxy on a low-cost VPS (with sufficient bandwidth but not enough memory and disk) running VPN or SSH services and run the actual full node at home. Your local IPS will only see the encrypted VPN/SSH traffic between your home and the VPS, while the external world would only see the public IP address of the VPS, which could be in another country. I once ran two nodes at home and used this technique, not because I was trying to hide but because I needed a second public IP address for the second node.

If your VPS is located in a different jurisdiction, and if you can pay for the service with bitcoins without furnishing your actual name/aaddress, it would provide some level of isolation from local authorities vs. running a regular full-node at home.