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title: 'Re: For a website taking payments with bitcoins, better: IP or bitcoin addresses?'
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date: 2010-05-16 21:37:36 UTC
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# Re: For a website taking payments with bitcoins, better: IP or bitcoin addresses?
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<code>Re: For a website taking payments with bitcoins, better: IP or bitcoin addresses?
May 16, 2010, 09:37:36 PM

<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129.msg1124#msg1124">Quote from: Xunie on May 14, 2010, 09:52:53 PM</a>
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I suggest we disable IP transactions while the user uses a Proxy!
Just to be on the safe side.
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That's a good idea.  At the very least a warning dialog explaining that it'll connect to the IP and send the information cleartext, giving the chance to cancel.</code></pre></div></div>