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Using Lightning over TOR questions:

1) Why? Advantages?

2) Security... can't exit Tor nodes look/steal information?

Plz explain. Thanks

Better privacy, your node is visible in the network and people can see your IP address and your capacity.

Also you can easily access your node from everywhere without port forwarding and networking stuff (tough there are other solutions too like cln commando or lnd lnc)

Downside is tor is extremely unreliable and annoying to use. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Fetching an invoice on Zeus connected to your Node via Tor can take like ~2 minutes. Also there won't happen much routing on your node due to this.

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Felix 2y ago

But it's safe to use, exit nodes can't steal anything

nobody 2y ago

Wild. I used to use Tor. I thought the exit nodes were able to "see" your data? Is this not correct anymore?

Felix 2y ago

Afaik they can only see unencrypted stuff if you for example login to a http website, but most websites use encryption so this is not a problem. In lightning is nothing to steal for them too.

nobody 2y ago

Oh OK. Intersting. Thanks