# Questions about blocking onion addresses with open trades

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712 "2018-12-05T02:13:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![brandona78](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/brandona78/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@brandona78](https://bisq.community/u/brandona78)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/1 "2018-12-05T02:13:49Z")

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Hello,

I have a few questions about blocking onion addresses.

Will blocking an onion address affect current open trades? (e.g. will I be able to receive confirmation of payment received from the trading peer?)

Also, will blocking the trading peer’s onion address affect the arbitration process?

I’m asking this because I want to block an address to prevent him from taking my current open offers, but this particular trade haven’t been closed yet.

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**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/2 "2018-12-05T07:12:04Z")

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Hello,  
The “particular trade” you speak about has been already taken by the onion address you want to avoid ?

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**Author:** ![brandona78](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/brandona78/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@brandona78](https://bisq.community/u/brandona78)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/3 "2018-12-05T08:52:32Z")

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Yes, it has.

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**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/4 "2018-12-05T09:17:07Z")

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My guess is that blocking will have no influence on the taken trade. Too late.

As for the open offers, I have no idea if blocking an onion address **after** making an offer will work or not. Maybe it’s also too late.

Better to wait for a dev proper answer (ping @ManfredKarrer).

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**Author:** ![brandona78](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/brandona78/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@brandona78](https://bisq.community/u/brandona78)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/5 "2018-12-05T09:32:43Z")

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Ok, it’s good that it’ll have no influence on the open trade. Because I actually want the trade to proceed as normal. Just didn’t want to trade again with this particular trader.

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**Author:** ![brandona78](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/brandona78/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@brandona78](https://bisq.community/u/brandona78)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/7 "2018-12-05T12:15:24Z")

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It does not.

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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/questions-about-blocking-onion-addresses-with-open-trades/6712/8 "2018-12-05T19:46:36Z")

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I also have no idea. It would be best to wait for devs to respond.  
@christoph or @m52go might also have an answer if Manfred is too busy.