{"id":155207,"date":"2021-01-15T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tor-enabled-bitcoin-nodes-are-back-after-bug-on-network\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T09:28:26","slug":"tor-enabled-bitcoin-nodes-are-back-after-bug-on-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tor-enabled-bitcoin-nodes-are-back-after-bug-on-network\/","title":{"rendered":"# Tor-enabled Bitcoin nodes are back after bug on network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Tor-enabled Bitcoin nodes are back after bug on network <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>According to the latest\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitnodes.io\/dashboard\/?days=90\">data<\/a> from node monitoring resource Bitnodes, Tor-enabled Bitcoin (BTC) nodes are back to normal following almost a full-swing crash in early January 2021. As of Jan. 13, the number of reachable Tor-based BTC nodes amounted to 2,581, up from as few as 122 nodes on Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Bitnodes data, Tor-enabled Bitcoin nodes make up a significant part of the Bitcoin network, normally accounting for about 25% of totally reachable running nodes. According to the latest recorded data, Tor-based nodes made up over 23% of total BTC nodes on Jan. 13.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bitnodes, the current number of Bitcoin nodes amounts to 11,190 nodes, up from around 8,300 on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin (BTC) network has been steadily recovering in terms of running BTC nodes after a major outage on the Tor network.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-01\/30f2ee94-e260-413c-a9b5-952a50236053.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Number of reachable Bitcoin nodes over the past 90 days. Source: Bitnodes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Bitcoin node is a computer connected to other computers to host and synchronize a copy of the entire Bitcoin blockchain and essentially keep the entire network running. Tor-based Bitcoin nodes are a type of node\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.stackexchange.com\/questions\/70069\/how-can-i-setup-bitcoin-to-be-anonymous-with-tor\">implemented<\/a> privately using the Tor anonymous network.<\/p>\n<p>The latest dip in Tor-enabled BTC nodes is likely to be caused by a recent crash on the Tor network. On Jan. 10, Tor Project officially <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.torproject.org\/tpo\/core\/tor\/-\/issues\/40237\">announced<\/a> that the Tor network was experiencing instability due to an implementation bug in its v3 onion service. Tech-focused <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> agency TechNadu <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technadu.com\/attack-tor-causes-v3-onion-downtime-experimental-fix-land-soon\/240121\/\">reported<\/a> that the outage was likely due to a hacker attack.<\/p>\n<p>The downtimes in the Tor network subsequently affected a large number of Tor-enabled or so-called \u201conion\u201d websites including private Bitcoin wallets and exchanges like Wasabi and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bisq_network\/status\/1348314396611645441?s=20\">Bisq<\/a>. On Jan. 11, Wasabi <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wasabiwallet.io\/wasabi-wallet-tor-consensus\/\">reported<\/a> that it managed to keep its services intact using a fallback system. \u201cIf the Tor onion service of the backend becomes unavailable for the user, the wallet falls back to communicating with the backend&#8217;s clearnet endpoint, still over Tor,\u201d Wasabi wrote.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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As of Jan. 13, the number of reachable Tor-based BTC nodes amounted to 2,581, up from as few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-01\/ba8e30f4-fdff-47d5-bb30-7bf7b0ebca8e.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15047,76943,74862,74989,74863,74983,76216,83463,4965],"class_list":["post-155207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy","tag-anonymity","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-mining","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-decentralization","tag-nodes","tag-tor","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}