The forum is now unusable via Tor

[Mt. Dox]

The forum is now unusable via Tor. Almost all exit nodes are banned. Everytime I start Tor I have to hit "new identity" and try again over and over. It took 14 times to login to this session. You also have to change the MaxCircuitDirtiness or you will be banned by the time you hit "Submit" on your post.

Now that theymos is fixing things, please unban Tor exit nodes. If needs be I would pay towards a bounty to have this implemented.

[SaltySpitoon]

The forum is now unusable via Tor. Almost all exit nodes are banned. Everytime I start Tor I have to hit "new identity" and try again over and over. It took 14 times to login to this session. You also have to change the MaxCircuitDirtiness or you will be banned by the time you hit "Submit" on your post.

Now that theymos is fixing things, please unban Tor exit nodes. If needs be I would pay towards a bounty to have this implemented.

I'd imagine its people that use Tor that end up getting IP Banned, not that Tor nodes were specifically targeted. I could be wrong though, but that is my best guess.

[Mt. Dox]

I'd imagine its people that use Tor that end up getting IP Banned, not that Tor nodes were specifically targeted. I could be wrong though, but that is my best guess.

Yes thats exactly what it is, Theymos has confirmed this before. Somebody using Tor gets banned and every exit they were using gets banned too. But now it's got to the point where Tor is unusable and Tor exit nodes should be auto-unbanned. Perhaps a cronjob that runs every couple of days that scrapes the Tor exit API and removes the IP's from the banlist.

Or, even better, bitcointalk.org runs a Tor hidden service. It would that solve this problem, be very easy to do and the people using it would be protected from SSL MITM attacks, one of which happened to bitcointalk a few weeks ago. Downside is the extra admin time that would be required to run a Tor client.

I'd be willing to donate to a bounty for either of these. Would donate a lot more for a hidden service though!

[theymos]

I go through the ban list and remove them every week or two.

There's a Tor option to change exit nodes less frequently. Then when you find one that works, it doesn't stop working in 10 minutes.

[Mt. Dox]

I go through the ban list and remove them every week or two.

Didn't know that. That sounds good. Perhaps some old account was banned recently because most of the exit nodes are banned right now.

[jackjack]

I go through the ban list and remove them every week or two.

There's a Tor option to change exit nodes less frequently. Then when you find one that works, it doesn't stop working in 10 minutes.

It was already proposed by someone: don't you think whitelisting registered users would do the trick?

[DeboraMeeks]

I doubt a bitcoin forum would target tor nodes. IMHO The issue is that it's used by random spamming bots when they are IP banned. and for that even if they were unbanned now, if someone abuses them again to spam they will be blacklisted etc...