Tor shrinked of about 13,5% but you can contribute. : Tor | Torhoo darknet markets

The Torproject recently ⚠️announced⚠️ that they will kick out old relays which are running EOL (End-of-live) Tor versions which are not official supported anymore and which might have some unfixed security holes in them.

Doing so from time to time is necessary to provide a healthy and usable network for all of us.

⚠️This⚠️ is the ticket for removing them and ⚠️here⚠️ you can see the drop in the number of relays and the ⚠️drop⚠️ in the advertised bandwidth.

While this should not have any noticeable impact for us users it is hurting plenty from a safety perspective when 13,5% of relays are gone.
Every relay who contributes makes an attack like ⚠️Sybil attacks⚠️ more difficult for the attacker.

So if you think about running a relay then this is a great moment to do it now and you can ⚠️follow the insturctions⚠️ the Torproject published on their website.
Setting up a relay is pretty easy even for people without much experience in Linux and you can get a small VPS without bandwidth limitations for less than 5€ a month.

Exit-relays are the border to the normal internet and they could get a problem for you if someone is doing nasty stuff with them and LEA wants to look more closely and decide to kick your door down but running a Guard-relay is fine because no traffic will exit the Tor network.

Thanks for running a relay!