Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Outbound connections rotation

2014-08-18 Thread Wladimir
> The optimal strategy for avoiding linkages (ignoring tor, again), is > to randomly pick a different peer for each transaction and relay the > transaction only to that peer. This can (and probably should) be > distinct from your normal network connectivity. It already happens with 8 peers that i

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Outbound connections rotation

2014-08-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > Yes, I believe peer rotation is useful, but not for privacy - just for > improving the network's internal knowledge. > > I haven't looked at the implementation yet, but how I imagined it would be > every X minutes you attempt a new outgoing