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  • I am fairly new to this community, so I have no official say. But has Core considered distributing Monero binaries via Nostr, IPFS, Arweave, akash, Session, or other decentralized means? This would allow for more decentralization of staff and censorship resistance than a credit card government domain. Also could be both. just more options. And then different core members could do the different official channels, which would quickly raise alarm bells if Nostr has a different binary than getmonero.org




  • You’re correct that UDP is not “suspicious”, but it is easier to track from an ISP that a VPN is being used. The video stressed that this was a risk for those concerned with censorship from the ISP for using a VPN. Even the WireGuard official website says this is not ideal for obfuscation.

    Regarding the VPN→Tor, it places a greater level of trust on the VPN provider to properly implement WireGuard key rotation. If the VPN provider is using a dedicated server, such as Mullvad, then that’s great. Other VPN providers are shady and use VM clouds from popular datacenters. Cloud computing shares RAM resources and thus it’s keeping in memory longer the association. It’s also possible that the same datacenter can be hosting a Tor node and a VPN. Many VPNs use the same third party datacenters. It’s not that WireGuard is inherently insecure, it’s that there is no benefit to using during Tor for increased risk. And these increased risks all revolve around more trust.