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October 24, 2012, 08:05:13 PM
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Does the bitcoin software record your ip? If so is there any other way to use it besides having to download something?
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October 24, 2012, 08:06:58 PM
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normally the "bitcoin software" comes as your wallet ...? Like Bitcoin QT  and many others
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October 24, 2012, 08:17:44 PM
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I mean like doesn't it send information (my real ip) back to the bitcoin site or is it not that kinda thing
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October 24, 2012, 08:24:42 PM
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Not by itself (it doesn't report your IP or any other information to any central server), but like anything that connects to other computers over the Internet, other people you connect to may record your IP. The standard client (Bitcoin-Qt) allows you to connect through Tor if you're worried about that.
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October 24, 2012, 08:27:55 PM
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I always thought the bitcoin software exchanged IP's of other nodes in order to help them find other nodes to connect to.  If you're trying to keep your IP private, Bitcoin will not do that for you.  Use Tor.
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October 24, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
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Quote from: noob88 on October 24, 2012, 08:05:13 PM
Does the bitcoin software record your ip?


The bitcoin blockchain doesn't record any IP address information but the nodes that your client is connected to might.

Blockchain.info, for instance, captures this information and publishes it when they present the blockchain information (see the "first relayed by" node IP address data for each transaction).
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October 24, 2012, 10:25:22 PM
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If you send coins it'll show your IP on blockchain.info on that transaction.

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October 25, 2012, 12:20:44 PM
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If you install TOR, then on the Options|Networking tab, it allows you to enable SOCKs. The default setting (127.0.0.1 on port 9050) also happen to be the default setting for TOR, so just checking this will masquerade your identity.
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