
The Mysterium dVPN
In the last days I set up a node of a decentralized VPN using the Mysterium network. This was mainly to get profits from the Internet bandwidth I don’t use and to help provide freedom of speech for those who need it. What is Mysterium? Mysterium is ‘a global, distributed network powered by everyday people. Network participants are incentivised to share their resources in a supply and demand marketplace, helping others gain access to the open internet’. It is basically a blockchain-operated VPN service, where customers pay with the MYST token to connect to the nodes ran by volunteers who receive a compensation for it, also in MYST. The main benefits are that the exit IP addresses of your connection are the ones of regular people and not well-known business IPs, which makes it harder for content providers to deny your access to content they usually block for VPN users. Node runners, in return, receive a cryptocurrency that can be exchanged for many others. It isn’t very valuable for now (1MYST=0.17$ at the time of writing), but it’s for sure a compensation for a service that some would provide for free. ...