On Sun, Dec 12, 2021, 7:42 AM Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

Indeed, I reiterate that using the Tor network for Bitcoin or whatever protocol not related to the Tor Browser (ie browsing and HS) does not make sense, for plenty of reasons


Please cite this.  It is very hard to believe.

Personally, I have encountered network blocking of bitcoin peers, and Tor is one way to reconnect with the network when this happens.


Regardless, reasonable rebroadcasting of nonlocal transactions is a hands-down good thing.  This does not make them anonymous, but it does make it a little harder to track their origin, and additionally it makes their transmission more robust.

Every extra measure is a good thing, as everything eventually fails.