# Outbound connection success rates of a Bitcoin node

**URL:** https://bnoc.xyz/t/outbound-connection-success-rates-of-a-bitcoin-node/142
**Category:** Observations
**Tags:** p2p
**Created:** [June 18, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/outbound-connection-success-rates-of-a-bitcoin-node/142 "2026-06-18T10:36:27Z")
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#### Post date: [June 22, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/outbound-connection-success-rates-of-a-bitcoin-node/142/10 "2026-06-22T16:48:57Z")

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## connections to Tor exit nodes

When Bitcoin nodes use a Tor proxy to connect to clearnet peers (`node → proxy/tor exit node → clearnet peer`), the node might self-announce the proxy/Tor exit node address, as that’s what the peer thinks the node has.

This is being changed in [net: don’t self advertise tor exit node ip addresses in outbound connections by stratospher · Pull Request #35578 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/35578) by @stratospher. For this, it’s interesting to know how many connections my node attempted (and succeeded in making) to Tor exit nodes. For this, I’m using the Tor exit node IPs since 2024-01 as archived on [Index of /archive/exit-lists](https://collector.torproject.org/archive/exit-lists/) .

In mid 2026, my nodes each make between 7.5 to 12.5 connection attempts per day to Tor exit node IPs.

 ![Outbound connection attempts to Tor exit nodes per day (per node)](https://bnoc.xyz/uploads/default/original/1X/d02eb5393c2b98cc62d22299c2ae7ef869050b68.jpeg)

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