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Oftentimes my own IP address shows up as the "Relayed by ip" piece of data reported by Blockchain.info.

Is there a commercial node available that I can conract with to act as relay so that my IP won't be known? (and has as part of the agreement their assurance to not log IPs for transactions)?

I know there are certain well connected nodes that I can connect to, but I don't have the guarantee from them that they aren't collecting and sharing my IP info.

Stephen Gornick
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Bitcoin will run over Tor. There an article on the Bitcoin wiki that explains the process.

Just install Tor and let it set up a proxy on its default IP (127.0.0.1) and port (9050).

For bitcoind, use the flag --proxy=127.0.0.1:9050.

For the GUI client, under Options, check Connect through socks4 proxy. Set the proxy IP to 127.0.0.1 and the port to 9050.

David Schwartz
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