• LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The only good decentralized VPN is Tor. If cryptocurrency is required to use it, it’s already based on a scam.

    Mysterium gives you 1-2 pennies per gigabyte that somebody anonymously uses your IP address to transfer the most potentially unethical and illegal content capable of being transferred. And, of course, the purveyors of the software benefit directly by the value of their proprietary token increasing as more people use their network.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    https://safing.io/spn/

    Safing is a interesting approach to distributed VPNs. Unlike the crypto models, you pay for your use with the subscription the payments accepted via crypto if you like. So there’s no direct link to you as the payee

    Each circuit could take a different path through the network, it’s kind of like a self-supported tor architecture.

    It’s a super interesting project I highly recommend reading about it if you’re interested in distributed VPNs, or even onion networks in general

    Of course the granddaddy’s of distributed VPNs are tor and I2P. That should be the start of any of your research, and then you can look at the more niche options.

    Avoid any VPN, distributed or not, that’s closed source. The vast majority of the " crypto VPNs " are closed source packages which do evil things to your network

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Is this really a decentralized VPN, or is it more like… A traditional VPN, but doing way more stuff all at once? For example, you’re not offering your IP address up to anyone else.

      It reminds me of Invisiv, another non-traditional service that runs your traffic through two hops to better anonymize you. Except, in the case of Invisiv, it’s only connecting to a single set of servers at once.