Monero launched the client update to fight spy nodes

Privacy Blockchain Monero rolls a new client update to provide more security users against “spy nodes” on the network.

The “Fluorine Fermi” update software is announced Via X on Thursday, with the team saying it was “a highly recommended release.”

The word “spy node” is part of the vernacular used in Monero community. It refers to malicious nodes, group of nodes, or botnets That has the potential to calculate and match the IP addresses in the transactions conducted on the network.

Changes are focused on providing more data protection and node protocols, such as an enhanced peer selection algorithm that works to prevent connecting multiple nodes in the same set of IP addresses and an increase in the limit of subaddresses (unique one-time addresses) that can be created at once, including some general reliability and repairs.

Monero’s privacy threats

Fluorine Fermi provides another tool for users to protect their privacy.

Provided that spy nodes threatened users’ privacy compared to The project’s main purposeThe community strives to find workarounds, Promote Safety skills, promote self-node operation and use software to provide a shield against malicious Monero nodes.

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One of such an idea, suggested With the Monero Research Lab in late 2024, it was to enable node operators to create a list of banning all IP addresses suspected of being a spy node, thereby avoiding connections to them.

However, this is not seen as a pointless or fully sustainable tactic, as malignant node operators can only go ahead and set up new spy IP addresses if they need to.