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