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I'm making great progress(*) working on MONAD, which I just seriously started researching and planning on Sunday night

Monetized
Onion
Network
Access
Deamon

It's like a VPN or Tor, but you pay the relays via Cashu Spilman Channel micropayments. You can connect through any number of relays, paying for more relays if that might help with privacy

I'm very happy with the networking design (**), and I have a working system where the sessions are paused when the client needs to 'top-up' the balance needed in the session. I'm just working now on getting it working well with the Cashu Spilman payment channels

I'll reply immediately with more of the internal details, including links to code that's already a few hours out of date (a long time when being a Slop Cannon)....

(*) having lots of fun mostly, and learning more networking stuff
(**) I have some relevant background in encryption and networking, but I'm not an expert in mixnets or traffic analysis
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SatsAndSports · 1w
If you use three relays, then you have three 'sessions' nested inside each other so that each relay learns very little about your connection. You have one session with the first relay, and you use that connection to open a second session with the second relay, and so on. Typical onion routing. Nois...
tuma · 1w
That’s very cool! Congrats on new project! Btw, I remember someone is making a version of Tor with LN monetization, I don’t know if it could be of any inspiration for your project! It was called el-tor if I remember correctly!