Mysterious entity could also be gathering BTC customers' IP addresses — Bitcoin developer

An unknown individual or group could also be gathering the IP addresses of (BTC) customers and linking them to their BTC addresses, violating the privateness of those customers, based on a weblog submit from pseudonymous Bitcoin app developer 0xB10C. The entity has been energetic since March 2018, and its IP addresses have proven up on a number of public posts from Bitcoin node operators over the previous a number of years.

0xB10C is the developer of a number of Bitcoin analytics web sites, together with Mempool.observer and Transactionfee.data. They’ve additionally been awarded a Bitcoin developer grant from Brink.dev up to now.

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