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 Bitcoin has benefited immensely from Tor. 

Give back. Run a relay. 
 Tor proxy on the umbrel 
 yeah
thinking of running a IPv6-only one on a unique address (ISP gives me plenty anyway), to avoid the blacklisting woes 
 Do you have /64 or shirter prefix? 
 yes, i have a /48 
 bah, this won't work: relays are required to at least have a public IPv4 address: https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/
that's exactly what i'm trying to avoid
okay, maybe better to go with a VPS again 🙂  
 Running relays (w/ RPi) would be great for sure, but you can also help by running a simple Tor Snowflake:

- Debian: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/debian/
- BSD: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/freebsd/
- Docker: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/docker/
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 isn't tor a CIA thing? 
 Tcp/IP is a government thing, so is SHA256 
 these things are open protocols while tor is a platform 
 internet says Tor (onion routing) is an open protocol. The network of relays is considered a "platform". I'm no network administrator though 
 Full node, tor relay, nostr relay, matrix server ISPs will hate us 
 Do not run a Tor relay at home, this will not end very good at the end. 
 You probably mean exit nodes. A relay is pretty safe to run. 
 Yeah, exit node. Relays are not the critical part. Tor needs much much more exit nodes. 
 *or run a Snowflake 
 brand new Tor relay !
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it's running on a vps with unmetered 100mbit network connection, paid through lightning

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 thank you 
 is there a guidebook on how to run a relay as a non technical avg user? would love to see if i am able to contribute in any way 
 Can we do it as a non technical through Umbrel or "easily" 
 better yet, an exit node 
 💐💐💐 
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