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Indeed... assumption is the mother of all fuck ups 
May I ask what lead to you assuming that Bitcoin Core would just use Tor by default? I'm curious to know if there is a learning opportunity here for everyone.
May I ask what lead to you assuming that Bitcoin Core would just use Tor by default? I'm curious to know if there is a learning opportunity here for everyone.
It was a stupid misreading, out of context, of some phrase like "Bitcoin Core v0.12 and later automatically tries to connect to Tor" [following context omitted; in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Setting_up_a_Tor_hidden_service], but I'm not sure that precisely was the source.