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Mempool.space - should Tor be used, for looking at specific transactions?

913 sats \ 12 comments \ @Signal312 6 May privacy

I've read that you should NOT directly look on mempool.space, in order to check specific transactions.

Should you do this, instead, on Tor? And how to find the onion address of mempool.space, in order to do this?

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270 sats \ 3 replies \ @nullcount 6 May freebie

Mempool's Onion: http://mempoolhqx4isw62xs7abwphsq7ldayuidyx2v2oethdhhj6mlo2r6ad.onion/

When you use Tor hidden services:

Tor is slow
Your ISP knows you are using Tor
Mempool.space does not know your IP address
Mempool.space knows what was searched and when it was searched and that it was searched from their Tor hidden service

When you use mempool's open source explorer from your own node:

Very fast on LAN + easy to setup your own Tor Hidden service
Your ISP (probably) knows you run a Bitcion node
You are invisible to Mempool.space completely

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 OP 6 May

Thanks for this.

In general, how do you find onion addresses?

153 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 6 May

Privacy-aware websites include this HTTP header:

Onion-Location: http://mempoolhqx4isw62xs7abwphsq7ldayuidyx2v2oethdhhj6mlo2r6ad.onion/

Privacy-aware web browsers will acknowledge this header and add this to the URL bar when you visit the site on clearnet.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYtfP.png

Click the "purple" button to enter The Onion.

Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser, Brave Browser, etc.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 7 May

Aha! Thanks, I think I may have occasionally seen that out of the corner of my eye, but never really noticed it.

So that's how people are finding onion addresses!

148 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 May

You should run your own mempool.space that references your own node for data

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 6 May

Better to self host block explorer, but if need to use something public like mempool.space or blockstream.info, definitely use Tor.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @windward 6 May

Run your own node and you'll never need to ask mempool.space for anything ever again.

Umbrel Guide DIY guide for DIY nodes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tolot 7 May

It depends really...if you opt in to all the saga of ordinals disrespector and the datacarriersize=0 saga you are not very well off with your own mempool for fee forecasting. In such situation, mempool.space fee forecasts are more realistic because of their non-biased mempool policy.