Bitcoin privacy apps and lightning nodes have been struggling with DDOS issues for most of this year, as TOR, the network used by many of these applications, has been under attack. In response, the team behind the MercuryWallet application decided to make their wallet work with both TOR and I2P, a decentralized network that provides anonymous communication over the internet.
Internet privacy infrastructure
TOR, short for The Onion Router, is an encrypted overlay to the internet comprised of thousands of relays that ensure network traffic is untraceable. On the TOR network, IP addresses are untraceable similar to a VPN.
However, a VPN is traditionally based around a centralized provider meaning there is potential for the centralized entity to be compelled to release the IP addresses of those on the network.
When using TOR, a decentralized group of volunteer nodes provides encryption, making it much harder for anyone to track down the source IP address of a connection. Additionally, Bitc
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