Oddbean

Explain it like I’m 5. I want to hear if this is what I actually think and exactly how you’d interact with it, and also that would probably help people scrolling past it too. This is a web front end tunnel that talks to a peer swarm in the background basically like a proxy server? Am I getting that right?

Basically, it starts a SOCKS5 proxy in the background that will automatically handle connecting with holesail/hyperdht connections, you wont have to connect to a key every time in terminal, the proxy will automatically do it on the go for any app for browser. For example, doing <my key>.hyper in the browser will load a holesail connection from <my-key> . It is pretty sick, @hzrd149 I see it is MIT, I might add it to holesail someday

Please feel free to add it to holesail or copy and take over the project. I'm not going to have time to add features or maintain it My goal was to build a proof of concept that would allow any app to connect to hyper nodes without needing to be written in NodeJS or integrating hyperdht Also there might be a way to roll this into a mobile app like Orbot. since I'm pretty sure Orbot is doing the same thing on mobile @TheGuySwann SOCKS5 is what every app (browser, bitcoin wallet, etc...) use to interface with Tor. they don't directly talk to the Tor network but instead talk through a proxy that in turn talks to Tor This SOCKS5 proxy allows any app that supports routing traffic through proxies to connect to .hyper domains, which are just the pubkey key of any hyper node