On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:04:37AM +0100, 4dcb8...@opayq.com wrote: > Hi, yes it's called Orbot see here > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android&hl=en_GB&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dorbot&pcampaignid=APPU_Hbc5VJLDFMjB7AaK9oBw > > And here's a Reddit thread on setting it up as a non exit node > > http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2im3cz/turn_your_android_into_a_tor_relay_get_bitcoin/
Unfortunately, your smartphone likely doesn't have the cpu to push much traffic, and also your home wifi or equivalent very likely doesn't have the bandwidth to be a good relay. So this is a really appealing idea in theory, but in practice such relays are much much less useful than faster relays -- to the point that slow relays actually hurt the network because they produce bad performance for users who are unlucky enough to pick them. It would be cool to live in a world where things were different -- perhaps one day somebody will do the rest of the research and engineering work involved in making the Conflux design work: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#pets13-splitting But we took a step in the direction away from Conflux when we moved from three guard nodes per user to one. --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
