Many systems (including bitcoind) don't directly have Tor support built in and they instead connect to a local socks5 proxy which is exposed by the Tor instance which is running locally too. So, after a little LLM research, here's what I'm thinking that somebody could do: - Run the above, but expose the socks5 proxy to the internet. This exposes a socks5 proxy which directly forwards the request into Tor. - But tweak the sock5 proxy so that it requires cashu spilman payments - Now, given that we need a custom client which sends the payments, which can also encrypt the connection to socks5: (but maybe that's exactly what epoxy did 😀)

Yes it sounds a lot like epoxy. Epoxy could probably still benefit spillman channels and more adoption though..

GitHub

GitHub - Origami74/nostr-epoxy-reverse-proxy: Are operating a relay NERP yet? Use this Nostr Epoxy Reverse Proxy to allow clients to proxy through your relay and earn sats.

Are operating a relay NERP yet? Use this Nostr Epoxy Reverse Proxy to allow clients to proxy through your relay and earn sats. - Origami74/nostr-ep...