Hello StackerNews!
I already was introduced by @ekzyis in these posts [1,2].
With another question I promised to introduce myself to SN again... And here it is :D
I am currently a student interested in decentralization and IT security. As a hobby, I play a few minor CTFs every now and then and ride downhill the rest of the time. Well, I'd rather break my arm and then have an excuse to stay in my basement...
I will most likely be reading far more than writing anything myself. However, since I am currently researching the Bitcoin network as part of a smaller scientific work, there will be other hopefully interesting post from me in the future.
I first learned about Bitcoin in 2016 through a school friend. He used to boast about its price increases without really understanding the concept. At that time, I gave him some money so he could buy Bitcoin for me since I was still a minor. A few months later, I delved deeper into it and have been fascinated by the concept ever since.
As already mentioned, I am writing a small thesis about it. In this I would like to use a passive monitor to find out the number of Tor peers in the Bitcoin network. In contrast to IP, it is relatively easy to generate a large number of .onion addresses. In order to be able to make statements about network stability, the exact number of exit nodes and unique peers would not be entirely insignificant. I would like to do the whole thing through correlations between behavior patterns of the "addresses" and thus have a heuristic for which addresses presumably belong to the same peer. As soon as I have results I will post them here.
Best regards
padde