{"id":77237,"date":"2023-04-14T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77237"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:07:50","slug":"ethereum-researcher-reveals-ip-address-tracking-of-stakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-researcher-reveals-ip-address-tracking-of-stakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum researcher reveals IP-address tracking of stakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), Justin Drake, on the Bankless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HawX9E77mRs\">Bankless podcast<\/a> said that validators provide a large amount of data when <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-staking-and-how-to-make-money-from-it\">staking<\/a> ETH, including IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Drake said he knows about this practice from within.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There is a lot of metadata \u2014 deposit addresses, withdrawal addresses, recipients of fees, IPs, a validator&#8217;s presence in the network, and much more,&#8221; noted an EF representative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, collecting this information makes it possible to identify major players in the space and limit their participation in events aimed at retail users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We know who here are Kraken or Coinbase, and we can simply not airdrop them if the airdrop is targeted at individual validators,&#8221; Drake said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Users in the comments raised questions about centralization of protocol governance and data collection. Some drew an analogy with George Orwell&#8217;s novel 1984.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The real surveillance coin is Ethereum, you have been warned\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3352b3SdeY\">https:\/\/t.co\/3352b3SdeY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DR8DU5 PR8T0R1A (@PrivateerX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivateerX\/status\/1646593460441436189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Ethereum \u2014 this is the real surveillance coin. You have been warned,&#8221; wrote one of the commenters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The account owner, Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Whitman, sarcastically <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhostofWhitman\/status\/1646531884988641280\">paraphrased<\/a> Drake:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We can stop censorship by restricting what we don&#8217;t like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DeFi researcher, writing under the pseudonym DeFi Crypto Vaults, urged Ethereum users to take steps to protect themselves from data analysis and potential fraud. The expert <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiVaults\/status\/1646588032059953163\">recommended<\/a> switching to Linux, consistently using a VPN, and hardware wallets such as Ledger.<\/p>\n<p>In January, cofounder <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-ethereum-eth\">Ethereum<\/a> Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-proposes-a-privacy-solution-for-ethereum\">named<\/a> privacy &#8220;the biggest remaining problem&#8221; of the network and proposed stealth addresses as a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), Justin Drake, said on the Bankless podcast that validators provide a large amount of data when staking ETH, including IP addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1256],"class_list":["post-77237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77239,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77237\/revisions\/77239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}