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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Node over I2P?
by
apogio
on 13/07/2025, 11:15:04 UTC
Yes, it's definitely slower than using clearnet. Just like Tor, I2P use multiple hops/nodes to perform communication. https://geti2p.net/en/about/performance explain about it in detail.

I have a general opinion that I2P isn't very actively used in many applications, am I wrong? Not just bitcoin, but generally.

But if you search ".i2p" on the search column, it shows 0 node (which should be incorrect).

I think this can be manipulated, because there are multiple occasions where I 've known about .onion nodes that weren't visible in the bitnodes website. I don't know how it's possible, but I 've seen it happening. That's why people say that the total number of nodes is actually higher than the one visible on the website.