Many systems (including bitcoind) don't directly have Tor support built in and they instead connect to a local socks5 proxy which is exposed by the Tor instance which is running locally too. So, after a little LLM research, here's what I'm thinking that somebody could do:

- Run the above, but expose the socks5 proxy to the internet. This exposes a socks5 proxy which directly forwards the request into Tor.
- But tweak the sock5 proxy so that it requires cashu spilman payments
- Now, given that we need a custom client which sends the payments, which can also encrypt the connection to socks5:



(but maybe that's exactly what epoxy did 😀)