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Keep your bitcoin safe from bad dogs

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I see you scanning my network for bitcoin core connections.

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Yes! It’s part of the operation of my dns seed. Someone told me there was a bitcoin full node on that IP address, so that host connects to verify (and if it does verify, it tells new nodes where to connect). There’s many of them:

bitcoin/chainparams.cpp at master · bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree. Contribute to bitcoin/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

5:51 PM · Dec 28, 2021

Keep your bitcoin safe from bad dogs

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We do have

running there, but it's connecting core through TOR.

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and

Presumably your bitcoin core node is using clearnet - and it (or some other node) told me about your public IP.

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