Tunnel ⚡Sats VPN for Noderunners 2 more locations in southern hemisphere. 🌎🌍🌏
895 sats \ 4 comments \ @Hakuna 27 Dec 2022 bitcoin
Tunnelsats.com just added the 2 last uncovered continents as VPN Lightning Tunnel options for you node-runners out there.
We have captured quite some growth on the northern hemisphere, but now it's up to Brazil, South-Africa and Australia to catch up 🌎🌍🌏
  1. The new VPN in Sydney 🇦🇺 is waiting for your sign-up. While it's unforeseeable how many Tor-Only nodes we can convince to go hybrid in Oceania, we do think there has to be supply to instill demand
  2. We see lot's of #Bitcoin and #LightningNetwork growth happening in Africa. The momentum, energy and motivation is there, hopefully some connection stability and infrastructure can help accelerate it further. Welcome Johannesburg 🇿🇦
With this, we conclude our launches in 2022, following the path of our mission: Providing VPN Solutions for ⚡️ Lightning Node runners
Many thanks to our customer base and supporters, and everyone building, founding, helping, playing and paying with Bitcoin
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 28 Dec 2022
That's pretty cool
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 27 Dec 2022
You mention convincing tor lightning nodes to convert to hybrid. Am I mistaken, but can't a node run clearnet with your service? If so, what would be the advantage of hybrid?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Hakuna OP 27 Dec 2022
You can certainly run Tunnelsats with Clearnet only, via our VPN tunnels. But we would always recommend to go hybrid, since two connections are better than one.
  • in the unlikely event we have downtimes, your node is still online and able to connect to your channels, even if you've been connected via clearnet before
  • with hybrid, you can open channels to Tor only nodes, while clearnet only nodes need to ask the other side to add you as a peer first.
  • it doesn't really do any harm, even though the HTLC relay times with Tor are not really useful
So our primary aim is to allow and enable hybrid via tunnel splitting, while clearnet only certainly is possible, too.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 27 Dec 2022
Thanks for the explanation. Good information
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