The Importance of Hitting Your IP Address

The job of the router is to act as almost like a firewall between your devices at home and the public information highway. The privacy considerations are basically, you want to have as minimal attack surface as possible. So that's why you never give away your public IP address. You're leaking a lot of information when you browse the internet. And then of course, depending on how private you want to be with your use of Bitcoin, there may be people in countries around the world where they do not want to disclose that they are even using Bitcoin. That's probably an aspect to think about there.