Warn federated nodes clients when disabling tor for Bitcoin network (or enable Tor automatically in the same case) about bisq HOT 5 OPEN

Re: UI, that is an annoyance indeed, and either it is worked to avoid the blocking behaviour during the startup, or users should be directed to run bisq with the --useTorForBtc=true parameter

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Clearnet nodes are harder to come by as they either need to be hosted on a VPS, which is costlier, or even worse from your own IP which reveals your location and basically your identity as well, that is why a contributor will rather expose only an onion endpoint

Is there a reason why the clearnet nodes cannot just be ones that are used within the bitcoin community rather than provided by Bisq contributors. For examples ones used for open source wallet providers.

I have sometimes wondered this myself, I guess only a small minority of public nodes have peerbloomfilters enabled, since that could be used as a DDoS vector, and being outside of bisq federation they are not bound to be always up, nor to accept bisq nodes, as the latter are identifiable on the network and usually place quite of a strain on a full node when a spv resync is in progress, so they could be targeted by a blocking script that rejects connections by them

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I have experienced issue myself.

My thoughts are:

• Adding more clear net nodes would be helpful. That way there would be more than 4 available to connect to.
• If the user is unable to connect on clear net they should be able to revert back to Tor. This is not possibe to do via the UI as it will not load. It would be good for the UI to load even if there is no connection present so that setting can be accessed.

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Clearnet nodes are harder to come by as they either need to be hosted on a VPS, which is costlier, or even worse from your own IP which reveals your location and basically your identity as well, that is why a contributor will rather expose only an onion endpoint

from bisq.

Clearnet nodes are harder to come by as they either need to be hosted on a VPS, which is costlier, or even worse from your own IP which reveals your location and basically your identity as well, that is why a contributor will rather expose only an onion endpoint

Is there a reason why the clearnet nodes cannot just be ones that are used within the bitcoin community rather than provided by Bisq contributors. For examples ones used for open source wallet providers.

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