user5228: At https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/9807/5228 Tom van der Woerdt wrote "people who don't broadcast their IP address".
What did he mean by that? Is there a way to set up a particular Bitcoin client so that it does not broadcast my IP address or to make it more private in other ways?

user2306: Sure. Install Tor and add tor=1 to your bitcoin.conf.

5228: <p>At <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/9807/5228">https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/9807/5228</a> Tom van der Woerdt wrote "people who don't broadcast their IP address".</p>

<p>What did he mean by that? Is there a way to set up a particular Bitcoin client so that it does not broadcast my IP address or to make it more private in other ways?</p>
 2306: <p>Sure. Install <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tor</a> and add <code>tor=1</code> to your <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11190/where-is-the-config-file-of-bitcoin-qt-kept/11210#11210">bitcoin.conf</a>.</p>
