New in the Sovereign Starter path: the network-privacy step (Module 2).
Ledger privacy starts after a transaction reaches the network. Before that, it leaves your device with an IP address attached. Two separate leaks:
• Broadcast origin: an observer who sees your transaction arrive first from one IP can guess you made it.
• Wallet queries: a server you don't control learns which outputs you care about, and from where.
Tor and I2P mainly fix the first and hide your IP for the second. They don't stop a server learning which addresses you asked about. Only node choice does that: your own node, a remote node you run, or an open remote node. Moneropedia: "Node operators can link transactions to IP addresses."
Details the docs flag: DNS can leak to your ISP without a proxy. On I2P the receiver sees the initiator's address, unlike Tor. Monero calls its anonymity-network support "still considered experimental", and a wrong clock or starting a node just to send one transaction can link you.
Not a setup tutorial or a ranking. Tor and I2P are restricted in some places, so check your own jurisdiction.
https://cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/network-privacy-node-tor-i2p
Path: https://cryptodecentral.co.za/guides/sovereign-starter
#monero #bitcoin #privacy #tor
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