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If a user sends Monero through a remote node, then the remote node operator would know the originating IP of that transaction. What are the steps that a user is able to take to reduce this potential privacy concern while using a remote node?

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    Kinda duplicate of https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1134/is-it-safe-to-share-a-daemon-with-a-roommate, but not quite. This will have information you will find interesting. – user36303 Nov 28 '16 at 08:34
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    I'd say this is the better one: http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/38/what-privacy-or-security-trade-offs-are-associated-with-not-running-your-own-ful , but yeah, this is different because its two questions.

    OP, can you change your question to "How can you minimize risks when using a remote node?"

     – Ginger Ale Feb 16 '17 at 00:26

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If it's only about sending moneroj, one could generate locally a signed transaction and forward it through a service like https://xmrchain.net/rawtx using tor/i2p/vpn to hide the originating IP.

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Moroccan Engineer
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I believe that the remove node will have access to your IP and can know the transactions that your wallet asked to mix yours

I dont think there is any way to prevent this, the only advice that I can think of is using diferent nodes at diferent times

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