diff --git a/14_1_Verifying_Your_Tor_Setup.md b/14_1_Verifying_Your_Tor_Setup.md index 92570e4..b1b211b 100644 --- a/14_1_Verifying_Your_Tor_Setup.md +++ b/14_1_Verifying_Your_Tor_Setup.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ If you did a standard installation with [Bitcoin Standup](https://github.com/Blo > :book: ***What is Tor?*** Tor is a low-latency anonymity and overlay network based on onion routing and path-building design for enabling anonymous communication. It's free and open-source software with the name derived from the acronym for the original software project name: "The Onion Router". -> :book: ***Why Use Tor for Bitcoin?*** The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer network that listens for transactions and propagates them using a public IP address. When connecting to the network not using Tor, you would share your IP address, which could expose your location, your uptime, and others details to third parties — which is an undesirable privacy practice. To protect yourself online you should use tools like Tor to hide your connection details. Tor allows improve your privacy online as your data is cryptographically encoded and goes through different nodes, each one decoding a single layer (hence the onion metaphor). +> :book: ***Why Use Tor for Bitcoin?*** The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer network that listens for transactions and propagates them using a public IP address. When connecting to the network not using Tor, you would share your IP address, which could expose your location, your uptime, and others details to third parties — which is an undesirable privacy practice. To protect yourself online you should use tools like Tor to hide your connection details. Tor allows you to improve your privacy online as your data is cryptographically encoded and goes through different nodes, each one decoding a single layer (hence the onion metaphor). ## Understand Tor