Oddbean new post about login | logout speaking of Dandelion, has anyone yet made a stand-alone bitcoin P2P transaction broadcast tool using arti (https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/arti/ )? like https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-submittx but it wouldn't use a SOCKS proxy to an existing Tor daemon but handles the Tor network handling internally nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpp59a0hkv5ecm45nrckvmu7pnk0sukssvly33u3wwzquy4v037hcqqs0pga3kvduve5rzvg2zhrqa5c5qdw2ad0rvdasnvgyu25lj5c83qsv9w79g
one one hand this would be the highest privacy transaction submission method, because it shares no state with any continuously running P2P daemon that may be fingerprinted or tracked over time by spy nodes on the other i'm not entirely sure, because if something connects to the Tor network just to drop off a transaction, that may raise some red flags and make it easier to perform some classes of timing correlations against
Related comment and pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29415#issuecomment-1936003083
yes the thing is that this really depends on the threat scenario, which likely differs per person, and per country my impression from the Tor people has always been "it's good to run the entire node over Tor because that creates noise to hide the signal", but it also has drawbacks, eg the contents of your peers list and other things are very personal to your node and it's easy to expose those inadvertently or indirectly
Mmh, I can't recall anymore precisely and the code for it might be gone, but I think I at least used arti to submit tx to an electrum server.