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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 16h \ on: El Tor is a high-bandwidth Tor network fork, incentivized by the Bitcoin LN lightning
Is it in any way cooperative with the original Tor? Like, can it route traffic through ordinary Tor nodes with only the entry and exit being aware of the paid nature of it? Or does the entire circuit need to be El Tor and every hop gets paid for its share of work routing the traffic?
El Tor and Tor are two separate networks (for many technical reasons) but we are architecting the El Tor daemon (eltord) and VPN-like apps (eltor-app) to detect what network you are attempting to route thru.
For instance, if you are trying to access your existing start9 that runs on the existing Tor network it will route thru a free circuit (since the introductory and rendezvous nodes are on the original Tor network).
If you are trying to route to a hidden service on El Tor (or even just a clearnet website) it will detect that you configured a wallet and will look up paid relays and their rates via the El Tor Directory Authorities. Then it will build a paid circuit.
The digram above shows much of this logic occurring in the SOCK5 load balancer/proxy in eltord. The goal is to create a modular daemon that could run in Start9, Umbrel, Mobile Apps, etc... and be a drop in replace for Tor.
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