El Tor - A high bandwidth Tor network fork incentivized with Bitcoin
Come learn about the architecture of the El Tor network! El Tor is a high-bandwidth Tor network fork, incentivized by the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Users can host El Tor relays and earn sats for sharing their bandwidth. The urgency for such a network has never been greater, especially in light of escalating privacy threats globally—from Brazil's VPN prohibition to the legal challenges faced by Telegram's Pavel Durov. El Tor aims to transcend the existing boundaries of the Tor network and to scale beyond its current limitation. The project was inspired by the cypherpunk vision for a private internet. BOLT 12 offers (with blinded paths) was the catalyst to build such a network. Lightning is used for privately paying relays out of band. A higher bandwidth and more reliable Tor network can lead to future services being launched as hidden services by default, instead of "clearnet" (or KYC'd) servers. - Read the spec here https://github.com/el-tor/eltord/blob/master/spec/00_spec.md - Technical details on paid circuits https://github.com/el-tor/eltord/blob/master/spec/01_paid_circuits.md