Yeah, Tor's inability to be always working is yet another factor pushing us towards custodial-lightning-land. I'd hope Bitcoin relying on Tor would have attracted more development on it, but the big money in the space barely care about privacy for the user, let alone the few running nodes.

Tor has always had the assumption that the US government won't ever try to take Tor down, because they need it. If the gov doesnt use I2P, I'm a bit concerned, but who knows.

People fear Bitcoin being crippled by taking down the internet (as they have been doing on and off in Iran last couple of days) but there are things being worked on; meshnets, starlink, satelite.

I am more nervous about Tor than the Internet, since everything needs the internet, even things that shouldn't. Glad Bitcoiners are on working with I2P!