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Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

The @torproject network was attacked yesterday. Tor is not (yet) fully decentralized. When you first connect to the Tor network there is hard coded IPs that your Tor process uses to bootstrap your connection into the network. Our decentralized community should help. #TorGap

1/10/2021, 1:13:02 PM

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Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

Some details on the attack: “This appears to be a new kind of attack which affects the entire network and involves overloading the consensus authority nodes.” https://darknetdaily.com/?p=1030

1/10/2021, 1:14:15 PM

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Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

At @BlockchainComns we leverage Tor extensively with our reference architecture, which is why we support the Tor commons as well. Not only financially but with code and services like hosting an exit node. We call this #TorGap: https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1337487024857616384

1/10/2021, 1:18:53 PM

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Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

We encourage your support of the Tor Commons and Blockchain Commons. We are needing more engineers to volunteer to review and contribute to our open source code tools, but also #devops volunteers to help us maintain & test & scale to make available more #TorGap services.

1/10/2021, 1:23:03 PM

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Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

Tor is an essential part of the Bitcoin Lightning network, and is beginning to become even more important to the privacy & safety of Bitcoin itself. If you care about either of those, you should also also consider financially sponsoring the @torproject & @BlockchainComns.

1/10/2021, 1:31:14 PM

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