Well, there goes my dream
lol
But I'll probably let those ports running as an exit anyway.
Thanks for the info.
You will still be a tor node, and that will help the tor network.
running exit nodes are a hassle since some sites block tor users from browsing their site. once you run a exit node, you will be flagged by a list of database and it is easy for webowners to flag your IPs.
True, and that's why I decided to be an exit for bitcoin only. I won't get the exit flag for that and my exit traffic will not easily be abused.
It's honestly sad. I have went to quite a few computer security conferences. Even listened to some of the TOR team speak. They had a great idea to help out people, and was about everyone having equal access to the internet in an anomyous fashion. If a country or isp blocking a legitmate site then it's goal was to allow access.
But slowly in my opinion it degraded. The amount of bad traffic just went up and up, and the network got slower and slower. I have not used it in over a year so it cold have changed. But the being flagged is a real worry with being a exit node.
It's still not fast, but it's useable. I do so quite often. I honestly think that tor is a bit like bitcoin---empowering. Some people will use that power for evil, some for good, but overall I see the empowerment as a good thing. I try to support tor but I don't have enough bandwidth myself to actually run a node. Although the idea in the OP of just running bitcoin ports is quite interesting---it got me reading up on the tor docs and whatnot. Thanks OP!
You're welcome
Like I said, I run tor on a very low end machine.
Therefore it's running linaro linux.
One downside is that I can't install a recent version of bitcoin because there is no pre compiled version for linaro.
For the moment I lack the skills to compile it myself and be sure it works good. Otherwise I would have ran a hidden bitcoin node, something which is even more needed than a bitcoin exit node in my opinion.
So, if you're really interested in tor and bitcoin you could consider to run this instead. Bitcoin also consumes not so much bandwidth.