Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:49:01 +0000

On 08/20/2014 12:16 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> The easiest way to do this would be to make the Debian/Ubuntu
> packages depend on Tor, and include a install-time script to setup
> the hidden service. I've verified with the Tor devs that they would
> welcome the additional load on the Tor network that Bitcoin would
> add.

The easiest way for the people who operates nodes would be to compile
Tor into Bitcoin Core as a library so that it "just works" when turned on.