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Title: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: NothinG on June 13, 2011, 02:20:10 PM

What's the point of using Tor to mine?

Title: Re: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: phungus on June 13, 2011, 02:43:21 PM

Anonymous bitcoins.

Your own IP address will not be associated with the mining network traffic. When you receive your BTC, you will be accessing the network over someone else's IP.

That said, I'm thinking that the latency wouldn't be great for it, but maybe it would work.

Haven't tried. :-)

lw

Title: Re: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: slush on January 30, 2012, 12:25:19 PM

My pool is already providing tor hidden service for mining, see onion adddress on http://mining.bitcoin.cz. It works with latest poclbm very well, thanks to direct SOCKS5 support in the miner.

There are two main reasons for tor mining: privacy and ddos protection. Pool is using different (secret) IP address, so even when main mining interface is down, tor mining should work nicely.

Title: Re: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: kamizie on January 30, 2012, 03:08:14 PM

Quote from: slush on January 30, 2012, 12:25:19 PM

how can i setup tor mining?
just go to ur site and reg an new account??

Title: Re: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: jake262144 on January 30, 2012, 03:33:32 PM

Quote from: kamizie on January 30, 2012, 03:08:14 PM

how can i setup tor mining?
just go to ur site and reg an new account??

RTFM:

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from mining.bitcoin.cz: (http://mining.bitcoin.cz)
Run your own CPU/GPU miner with the worker credentials you gave earlier, and connect it to following URL:
...
http://pool57wkuu5yuhzb.onion:8332
(anonymous mining over Tor network)
Only the newest version of poclbm miner have direct support for Tor mining at this moment.

Title: Re: Proxy/Tor Mining?
Post by: NothinG on January 31, 2012, 03:11:04 AM

Aww, who necro'ed this post? :(
Makes me look like a noob, lol.

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