⚡️s͛aͣᴛⷮ s͛ᴛⷮaͣcͨᴋⷦeͤrͬ⚡️ asked almost 3 years ago

Feature request: adding Tor-mandatory swaps

I'd appreciate the option of having only Tor-enabled nodes being able to participate in a swap.

4 Comments

LN+ Admin wrote almost 3 years ago

Good idea. Will do.
What's wrong with clearnet nodes?

biscoint wrote almost 3 years ago

I agree with tor-enabled, but not with tor-exclusive nodes. This can be good to incentive nodes to configure Tor and increase privacy to everyone.

⚡️s͛aͣᴛⷮ s͛ᴛⷮaͣcͨᴋⷦeͤrͬ⚡️ wrote almost 3 years ago

The simple reason is it saves time. Waiting for Tor nodes to open a peer connection to clearnet nodes, and then waiting for them to open a channel, can be pretty lengthy.

In addition, as what @bitcoint described, it provides an incentive for nodes to increase their privacy. There is very little reason for why residential nodes are run on the clearnet. (exposes their geographic location, more susceptible to DDoS)

8DegreesWO wrote almost 3 years ago

I believe with better and clear instructions that TOR nodes needs to add ClearNet Nodes first would help. i believe there is a message already, but the amounts of time that have to remind a TOR node to add me as a peer, is every swap i've done.

i think alot of participants get confused and thunk they are opening two channels....

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