Maruti Marumi, an early Bitcoin developer who collaborated with Satoshi Nakamoto, has published a new privacy-focused version of Nostr VPN, inspired by Tailscale, replacing email addresses and third-party accounts with Nostr public keys.
Malmi said in a post on Tuesday
The new version uses Nostr encryption keys instead of email logins and third-party accounts, reducing reliance on centralized services. The project aims to provide a more decentralized alternative to traditional VPN providers that route traffic through corporate-managed servers.
A VPN, or virtual private network, creates an encrypted connection between your device and the internet and helps hide your IP address and internet traffic.
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Bitcoin supporter Switzerland Hodler called Decentralized VPNs are a “freedom technology” that makes online censorship more difficult because they help remove more of the infrastructure from “central control.”
Marmi, also known as “Sirius,” is a Finnish computer scientist and developer known for being one of Nakamoto’s first major collaborators from 2009 to 2011. Marmi helped design Bitcoin’s first graphical user interface, co-managed Bitcoin.org, and co-founded the later rebranded Bitcoin Forum. bitcoin talk.
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Internet users demand privacy-focused VPN solutions
Developers are building more decentralized VPNs to meet users’ growing demand for privacy-focused solutions.
zero tier was launched in 2013 as one of the first privacy-focused VPN solutions built on a private mesh network. Zero tier by 2024 said Acquired over 3 million connected devices across 5,000 paid accounts and 600,000 network management.
Open source developer community launched in 2017 Yggdrasilis a decentralized mesh network that works similarly to a VPN by connecting devices through end-to-end encryption without relying on a centralized server.
Yggdrasil network architecture. Source: Github
In November 2019, Slack’s engineering team introduced Nebula is an open-source mesh VPN and overlay networking tool designed to securely connect computers and servers across different networks and locations.
Unlike traditional VPNs that route all traffic through a central server, Nebula creates a direct peer-to-peer encrypted tunnel between two endpoints.
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