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258 sats \ 3 replies \ @Brunswick 23 Sep 2022 \ on: Proposal for proof-of-work in Tor bitcoin
I havne't read in depth, but it makes me think about paying sats for opening circuits but to not charge after the circuit is established. The paper indicates its the circuit build and tear-down that are expensive to the network. If a circuit can be kept open for more than a single web-query then it would be inexpensive to use the network as a normal user but would be expensive to attack it by flooding the channel capacity.
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I think Indra is creating a new Tor, but only for bitcoin and lightning.
You'd need Indra in parallel to Tor for Tor-sats to work. If bitcoin is on Tor, you have a catch-22.
My idea is to pay the relays and exit nodes whatever rate they're asking to open a circuit through them which means your tor proxy would need a lightning wallet connected to Indra, I2P, or direct on-net to pay the tor channel-open invoice.
This would effectively make lightning impossible over Tor unless there was a special lightning payment layer built into Tor itself.
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I really like this idea!
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