Terk

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   by Terk 13y ago

   Since it's so trivial for authorities to fabricate evidence, using a system with a public ledger is actually preferred if you're afraid you might become a victim of evidence tampering. It's so much harder to plant unquestiona
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   by Terk 13y ago

   > Thank you for your feedback but it is my understanding that the nearest nodes will generally be the ones with the least latency The latency you mention is actually [my latency to relay node] + [relay node latency to blockchain.info]. I
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   by Terk 13y ago

   This is a P2P network. “Nearest” relay has nothing to do with geographic neighborhood. I made IP whois stats of nodes I am currently connected to and they are: 8x USA (3x NY, 2x Texas, 1x California, 1x Virginia, 1x Georgia), 2x France, 2x
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   by Terk 13y ago

   There's no way to geolocate bitcoin transactions. Blockchain itself doesn't store IP addressees. Well-connected nodes like blockchain.info can only detect the IP address of a node that was first to relay a transaction to their (bl