I'm curious as to whether small routing nodes are switching to clearnet or hybrid because of the obvious difficulties with Tor. I'm thinking about making a change and am looking for some input.
1 sat \ 0 replies \ @0330830bf9 24 Nov 2022
Tor is not a viable solution for lightning nodes, which need reliable connectivity to route payments. The privacy is mostly a LARP too since you have no control over your hops.
If you don't want to reveal your domestic clearnet IP, use a VPS or configure a VPN.
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @hades 24 Nov 2022
Tor allows you to skip forwarding ports and opening your network to attackers. Yes, your transactions are a little slower, but it is secure. Depending on your setup, tor makes it impossible to trace your bitcoin client syncing to your IP, or attach your LN node to your IP. Of course, none of this matters if you are funding your node from an exchange because they chainalysis the UTXO and you can see who it opens to if you open announced (public) channels. Good middle ground: keep the node fully tor, but use a VPN to connect from your mobile to your node.
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Eximpius 24 Nov 2022
If you wanna use hybrid mode but not open ports. Register a domain and use cloudflare tunnels. Just add externalhosts=“yourdomain.com” to lnd or core
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fritz 24 Nov 2022
Thanks I’ll have to try this
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eximpius 24 Nov 2022
your ip wont be public either. cloudflares will. you will look like a cloudflare ip address
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fritz 24 Nov 2022
I was trying to do a thing with socat but this seems best
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fritz 24 Nov 2022
I am yes. Or I intend to. Hasn’t been the easiest though.
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