How easy is it to run a relay anonymously? Device spec etc? Would be keen to help out
Not sure what is meant by "anonymously" but you would be putting your IP address up in the Directory list (thats just how Tor currently works). For example, @C_Otto shared his Tor relays in the post above #609650
A really cool goal to work towards is to popularize more use of "Tor Hidden Services". Right now its hard to visit a .onion site because the names are not human readable. For example in "Clearnet" if you goto https://google.com it looks up via DNS the ip address 142.250.114.100.
The idea: Gamer Tags (Onion Short names)
It would be cool to build a similar human readable naming system for "short onion addresses". For example mapping stackers news onion address http://snsnsnya6h3ot563f3p566wuhfoklkg5f62hokdlaqzcaub3gf4xlxyd.onion to something like http://crazyhorse69.onion.
There are several ways to do this, but it would be nice to do it in a decentralized way. Bitcoin is decentralized and we all already own sats. So maybe we could create a deterministic list of words (and maybe a few numbers) to create a "gamer tag" like crazyhorse69.
The deterministic list can be an imaginary overlay, ordinally ordered list, that maps each "gamer tag" to a single satoshi (sort of like the original ordinal theory that Casey pitched) but with more human readable names. We would simply just need to mash up enough words (and a few digits) to make 2.1 quadrillion "gamer tags" that map to each individual satoshi. (sort of like we have a standard list of words that go into your BIP-39 seed phrase https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt)
Then anybody who already owns satoshis already has a basket of "gamer tags" they can choose. They they can simply sign a message with that key for the mapping. Really anything can be mapped. Doesn't just have to be onion addresses
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