We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy
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By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data. The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1231: “BIP 324 would bring encryption to bitcoin’s P2P layer and it needs some review.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Visualizing how encrypting data can obfuscate network connections via bip324.com As some of you freaks may be aware, Bitcoin is by no means a perfect system. Satoshi Nakamoto launched the protocol in January 2009, and gifted the world with a sly, roundabout way to take money out
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