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doc: Add privacy recommendation when running hidden service

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Wladimir J. van der Laan 8 years ago
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@ -113,4 +113,13 @@ the user running bitcoind to the same group and setting permissions appropriatel @@ -113,4 +113,13 @@ the user running bitcoind to the same group and setting permissions appropriatel
Debian-based systems the user running bitcoind can be added to the debian-tor group,
which has the appropriate permissions. An alternative authentication method is the use
of the `-torpassword` flag and a `hash-password` which can be enabled and specified in
Tor configuration.
Tor configuration.
4. Privacy recommendations
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- Do not add anything but bitcoin ports to the hidden service created in section 2.
If you run a web service too, create a new hidden service for that.
Otherwise it is trivial to link them, which may reduce privacy. Hidden
services created automatically (as in section 3) always have only one port
open.

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