With the amount of countries, governments and social platforms all of a sudden censoring and banning VPNs all at once (they are using pr0n as an excuse to destroy our internet privacy) over the last few days, the utility of Tor has just skyrocketed.
While it's not directly related to Bitcoin, I do run a
Bitcoin node accelerator and a smaller
Lightning network accelerator, I am thinking of running a Tor accelerator as well.
People will come, run Tor nodes, and get merit. x10 merit and perhaps some sats if they run an exit node (dangerous but necessary!).
Of course less people will do it, so I will just stick it in Off Topic maybe.
But given that we are literally sleepwalking into 1984, I just felt like I had to do something about it.
However small it may be.
Anyway I just want to hear your thoughts about this.
Yes with many countries cracking down on privacy via VPNs it is definitely concerning and a threat to freedom on the web anonymously. They are using adult content as their lasso to reel this in and its not great for the average Joe just trying to protect themselves. If only there were super effective individual protections in place that most people dont have or aren't aware of like a solid endpoint protection platform for home use etc. There are some but they wont protect fully via email and links and other calling scams. Call blocker that works well is needed and also a universal phone identifying AI app would really help because the AI adoption is only making all of this much much worse.