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Very useful thank you 🙏🏽

I see in your future that VPN connectivity is blocked from being used in X

That's the great thing about Mysterium, you're exiting through a random persons home broadband connection 😂

And what prevents building a list of all of these exit nodes

Because they are constantly changing. They are home broadband connections with constantly changing IPs, providers and users. And there are typically over 20,000 available at any time out of around 100,000 providers.

Constantly changing doesn’t mean someone can’t automate the process of detecting and marking them. Not to mention if such a practice happened it would severly hamper the experience of the node hosters, forcing them to shut down or deal with bad experience.

Also You don't know what the exit IP is until you connect to it. You need to spend $MYST to connect to it. To build even a current list of available exit nodes would cost thousands of dollars. You'd need to do that every few hours to keep it current. You'd need an army of bots spending thousands of dollars of $MYST to capture that data.

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Lots of bots connecting to your node would make you a fortune, not force you to shut down 😂

A node is a raspberry Pi, you don't get a bad experience as a node operator, you just get money 😂

It's great isn't it 😂

IPs don’t shift as rapidly as you think. Usually nodes go down/up based on if for example the owner is awake. People that want to build lists can ignore nodes they already saw in the last 6-24h. And they would have a lot of $$$. After negative reviews start rolling in more people would shut down their nodes. Each node they can find and make life hell for is another node that they won’t have to worry paying again.

And the node wouldn’t work for end users either, so you would actually see your pay drop because they can’t get around blocks with it anymore. This would then drive users to complain and make the situation even worse.

You telling me, an ISP and data centre founder and owner what I think? Really? Negative reviews? You think there are reviews, you think there is information. You haven't understood anything. It's decentralised, with zero knowledge, nobody knows anything. Try to understand how it works before you tell me what's wrong with it, otherwise I'll be forced to adapt this meme to MYST 😂

Each node has an ID. Someone that wants to build a list could connect to each node every 48h and pay a fee. Sure, you earned say 20 cents. What happens next is your node stops working for what people want it for. So people stop using your node, decreasing your total income. As this becomes widespread, people stop using Mysterium in general, and no one wants to use it because everyone has bad experiences. There are companies charging 6-digit sums per customer for IP data, and you think that this is too much for them.

Node ID's, 20 cents 😂 Study it, don't make wrong assumptions.

When you open up the list of nodes you will see that each node does in fact have an ID.

You were in ISP?!?? Shhhhiiiieeeeetttt.

Yes, from 1989 - 2002 (although mostly data centres) I still own some companies, but I'm no longer involved day to day. https://mikehardcastle.com/about-mike-hardcastle/

So not at the 1993 DMC World Finals? Shame, that was a great set.

Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't. If you can remember being there, you probably weren't there 😂

“we are always happy to hear from interesting and challenging companies.” Well im extremely challenging company.

I'm happy to hear 😂

We can hope

I have been here since day 1 onboarded thousands in the beginning days of Nostr, I have never stopped! I run a corporate account and plug nostr as when I can always.

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