Making internet a safer place by running Snowflake proxy

What is Snowflake?

Taiwanese F&B Brand - Snowflake (雪花栈)

Of course, this is not about the food!

The Snowflake plugin offered by TorProject is an excellent tool for making the internet a safer place. You can easily download this plugin for free from the Chrome Store.

How does it work?

Think of it as a USB stick storage device that we use in our everyday lives. 

The plugin can be plugged into any computer, much like the internet can be accessed from any place any time. If you close your browser, the plugin automatically stops and becomes "unplugged" from the internet.

On the other hand, when you open your browser, the plugin again connects your internet to the Snowflake network, making it more secure and private.

How does "plugging your internet" help others bypass censorship?

So after the Snowflake plugin connects to the Snowflake network, that means you are already participating in the Snowflake network, and you can start helping to support the fight for online freedom and accessibility around the world.

To put it simply, when you use a Snowflake proxy like many other volunteers, it enables internet users on Tor Browser to bypass censorship and conceal their identity by "randomly bouncing" through a vast network of proxies.

Have fun safeguarding the internet from censorship.

Trying to earn MYST crypto with my unused bandwidth, but...

Warning: There is absolutely no financial advice on this or on any other pages of this blog.

New Updates: 

Monday, 17 January 2022

Dashboard Overview

The screen below will give you the insights about how your node is being used.

My 1.10MYST earning took me 10 days, at the time of this writing, it worth around 50cents USD.

Dashboard Overview

The earning is fairly slow, and don't forget there is a 20% fee before you can cash out (the settle button) your MYST.

20% blockchain fee

If 10MYST earned, we only get a clean 8MYST profit, but earning just 1 MYST is quite hard already, because you don't often get active session frequently.

The earning is slow, plus the 20% blockchain fee, I have the feeling not much node hoster has positive impression about this "profit".

But from a Mysterium Network dVPN consumer's point of view, this is a very cheap choice! 

Using its dVPN service for 24/7 without heavy traffic, and stay active for a non-stop year could possibly cost only 10MYST which is less than USD5

If the VPN security and stability result turns out great, we may no longer need to consider other high reputation and highly priced VPN service provider.

Sunday, 9 January 2022

After few days of waiting, my node is up and running now. I did file a report to Mysterium customer support, and this is what I received! Not instant, but at least I now acknowledged it's the surge of registration which need more time to process before my node is successfully accepted.

My suggestion: A better error message in the UI may help user to be more patient with this similar kind of issue.