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Re: [help] wannabe miner
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siggie
on 03/03/2018, 08:17:22 UTC
thanks for the reply,

I was thinking to use TOR, because I am used to use it for pretty much anything I do on the net.  Plus I read here
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3608/pool-mining-through-the-tor-network
this:
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mostly something that came up during a conversation I had with my academic supervisor - he likes pointing out all possible exploits that could happen in relation to Bitcoin and one of them was attacking miners based on their IPs. So I figured out I'd investigate possible obfuscation of the addresses.
is just a paranoid person, or it could actually happens?

Here Satoshi stated that is not possible to connect the ip to the wallet
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8.msg34#msg34
but is it possible to connect the IP to the miner? I want to mine for fun atm, but what if the country I live in in 10 years wakes up and tell me: you bought a miner, you should have earned this, now pay me. Where I live is not unlikely that something like this happens. I do not want to avoid taxes, if it turns out I can make a profit while helping the bitcoin network, then I'll gladly expand to business level, but I just want to avoid possible future problems.

There is no sole proprietorship where I live, opening a business costs at the lowest level 4000usd of taxes per years even if you do not earn anything so is not like I really have a choice here.

I would like to have remote access to the miners so I'll go with a vpn + static ip

I really believe too that cryptocurrency can help change the world for the better, like internet did, so I am very happy after years of lurking to have the chance of mining.