Silk Road forums
Discussion => Security => Topic started by: SolidSnake420 on December 25, 2012, 12:17 am
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I'm new to Tor and Silk Road and I want to make sure that i'm completely anonymous. I tried to download Bitcoin from the Tor browser but a message came up that it might unmask me if I continued. Will it really put me in danger if I continued to download or am I better off using the regular browser? Thanks
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Yeah i'm talking about downloading it. Ok and if I download it through the clearnet and I buy something on Silk Road can can someone be able to trace it?
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You'll want to configure the Bitcoin-QT client to run over Tor, otherwise it could list your IP address as the "Relayed by IP" in the block chain. So if you're sending coins directly from your client to SR, you could be deanonymized.
Take a look at any random transaction and you'll the relayed by IP
https://blockchain.info/tx/95855cbb856458834fb26d948cd8a5b8bf2644ce829a0a77d128c5aced5df30b/95855cbb856458834fb26d948cd8a5b8bf2644ce829a0a77d128c5aced5df30b
Honestly, if you've never used bitcoin before, I suggest using an ewallet like the one that blockchain.info offers. With the standard client, you need to download the entire block chain before you can use it, plus the index file, and that's like 4 GB of data and rapidly increasing.
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ok thanks