What is
Mysterium Network?
A distributed network of nodes that are providing VPN service in exchange for crypto curency.
- OpenSource project
- A distributed network of nodes providing networking services
- Introduces incentivization for exit nodes
- Permission-less platform for VPNs, proxies, scraping and other geo-unlocking and censorship resistance tools builders
How does it work?
Main challenges
- Not controlled environment
- Backward compatibility
- Many networking configurations
- Micro(nano) payments
- Chicken and egg problem
consumers & providers - who to acquire first?
Not controlled environment
Support for many OS
Run on different hardware
- Using Golang
- CI is building for many platforms
- Providing binary, deb and docker
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Apps can be build by using
- rest API
- static linking
Backward compatibility
Mysterium is not SaaS
We can't control when people will upgrade their software
- Backward compatibility for at least 2 prev versions
- Using unattended-upgrades for debian based os
- New desktop app will have auto-upgrade feature
Many network configurations
Up to 7 hops until external IP
We can't control environment, local network configuration, firewalls ...
Our "NAT hole punching" ensures plug&play experience in 70% of cases
Unfortunately sometimes manual port forwarding is required
And some rare configurations are not supported
Micro(nano) payments
- trustless and permissionless
- globally available
- instant and often tx (e.g. each minute)
- tx size = parts of a penny
Payment promises
digital cheques
11
15
9
settle
Alice can over promise = double spending problem
Hermes protocol
- Providers can aggregate promises
- Consumers can top-up via any wallet
- Settlement can be done at any moment
- Hermes is non-custodial party
settle multiple promises from many consumers via single on-chain tx
even from exchanges
can be each hour or once in a month
he can't stop a transaction or take users money
Chicken and egg problem
consumers & providers - who to acquire first?
Bounty program for node providers
Mysterium Apps
Android & MacOSX
reference implementation applications
https://portals.network
Run your node
Code on top of Mysterium
Join the future!
https://mysterium.network
Mysterium Network introduction
By Jaro
