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Bitcoin is a decentralized system, so there is no reasonable place to put these IP restrictions. If there is a single Bitcoin mining node (out of thousands[0])
by stuhood 13y ago
Bitcoin is a decentralized system, so there is no reasonable place to put these IP restrictions.
If there is a single Bitcoin mining node (out of thousands[0]) that will accept your transaction, you can play.
[0] http://blockchain.info/connected-nodes http://blockchain.info/connected-nodes
- dllthomas 13y agoYou're not speaking to the important question, which is whether there is any way for the recipient to tell the originating IP of a bitcoin transaction. I am gathering the answer is "no". If "yes", then there is an obvious place to put the IP restrictions: in the satoshi dice service itself. Obviously, even in this case, it could be defeated with a proxy.
- icebraining 13y agoThe point is that the recipient of the money doesn't interact at all to receive it; the rest of the network just "decides" (based on the transaction) that such address now has X more coins. The machine with the address/wallet is not consulted.
- dllthomas 13y agoThat is not the point. The information could be available, and the recipient could therefore act on it. If the information is not available then that is the point - but that could in principle be the case even if there was interaction.
- icebraining 13y agoBut it's not like the recipient could invalidate the transaction even if it had that information.
- dllthomas 13y agoNo, but it could either return it or pocket it, rather than letting them play.
- maaku 13y ago> You're not speaking to the important question, which is whether there is any way for the recipient to tell the originating IP of a bitcoin transaction. I am gathering the answer is "no". Correct. There is absolutely no way whatsoever to determine the originating IP address of a bitcoin transaction, short of global network surveillance.