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Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea by kanzure on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:41AM (#8498032)
> because clients can fallback to blockchain.info if there is a fork detected

Unfortunately bc.i's implementation/instance is not immune to bugs, forking, lying or collusion. I don't know why you would expect it to be.

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Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea by 3pt14159 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:56AM (#8498108)
The point is that it is a trusted enough party. If the client gets a suspicious block it can check against that party as a way of seeing if the client itself may have a bug.
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