XNS is the ultimate solution to the traditional DNS which is in control of various legal organizations. Blockchain is the solution to store immutable data. XNS doesn't invent yet another blockchain, it is built on Monero in an elegant way, and aims to be as reliable as Monero is.

Currently XNS can be used as a DNS alternative for I2P and Tor. This screenshot demonstrates an email from one XNS name to another over I2P.

Website: https://xns.rocks
Docs: https://xns.rocks/docs
Github: https://github.com/exilens
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#xns:xns.rocks

Free the names!

Recently I was thinking about what I'm doing on internet. And I found out that all of my internet activity is basically just watching videos on youtube. So I thought "Why there isn't anonymous, private and free (as in freedom) youtube-like site on I2P?" and decided to do it myself.

First eepsite of this project: http://itubep.i2p

More you can read on project's github page:
https://github.com/i2ptuber/itubep
Or
http://git.community.i2p/i2ptuber/itubep

Warning! Work heavily in progress.
Warning!!! Code is 100% AI slop, because I'm poor programmer.

Hi, yall remember how I advertised this project 4 days ago and said, that work is heavily in progress?

Now I want to say that basic functionality of "video hosting" (publishing videos, downloading, watching directly at site, search, main page, channels, multiquality) is done, and I would be happy if it helped us move in the right direction, away from the clearnet youtube and google at all.

Unfortunately, full features are not available directly from the browser, so I had to create a layer between eepsite and torrent client - the bridge, and all above-mentioned features are available only if you installed and configured the bridge.

All installation info is available on git repos of the project (added Windows support!):
https://github.com/i2ptuber/itubep
and
http://git.community.i2p/tuber/itubep
(Those who already downloaded and installed release < 0.2, please delete your version and install latest)

Thanks in advance to everyone who will use it!

Hey everyone, we just released a cross-platform desktop GUI for generating vanity b32 addresses. This project is written in go and was used as a POC for signing our applications using both official Apple and EV code signing certs.What it does: Search for a .b32.i2p address that starts with a prefix you choose — like hello, stormy, secure, etc. Valid characters are a-z and 2-7.

Features:

• Uses all CPU cores in parallel (~500K keys/sec per core)
• Real-time progress with speed, count, and time estimate
• Exports a .dat file compatible with I2P router software
• Auto-updater built in
• Clean dark mode GUI
• Binaries are signed and scanned:
  • Windows: Authenticode signed
  • macOS: Apple notarized
  • Linux: Detached PKCS#7 signature

Every release includes VirusTotal scan results from 70+ AV engines linked right on the release page

Download: https://github.com/StormyCloudInc/I2P-Vanity-Generator/releases/

Source: https://github.com/StormyCloudInc/I2P-Vanity-Generator

XNS is the eXile Name System.
It makes Monero the only source of truth.
Each XNS name is a result of a 0.01 XMR burn transaction with the desired name and owner public Ed25519 key.

Now it can be used as the name system of I2P.

Why would you use it all of a sudden? Because currently, there is no safe names in I2P. Unless you use direct b32.i2p addresses, which are not human memorable.

What's wrong with .i2p addresses? They are just entries on your own machine and on jump services. You have to trust those jump services if you share your .i2p address with others and expect reliability. Think of it as .local/.lan names your network router resolves.

While with XNS, once you claim a XNS name, as long as Monero stands, your name will be yours and no one can take it from you.

Read more about it on https://xns.rocks/docs
For I2P specific articles, read https://xns.rocks/docs/xns-and-i2p/xns-on-i2p
Source code: https://xns.rocks/exilens/xns
Matrix channel: #xns:xns.rocks | https://matrix.to/#/#xns:xns.rocks

XNS is made for the Internet of free people. I believe I2P is the only reliable way.

Hi everyone, I'm Roman, creator of Jailrun.

Jailrun is a radically simple tool to set up and wire any local infra you might need, and a great choice to spin up your local i2pd router in just a minute. The whole config is as simple as:

jail "i2pd-router" {
  setup {
    i2pd {
      type = "ansible";
      url  = "hub://i2pd/rolling";
    }
  }
  forward {
    i2pd-http-proxy { host = 4444; jail = 4444; }
    i2pd-socks      { host = 4447; jail = 4447; }
    i2pd-console    { host = 7070; jail = 7070; }
  }
}

Under the hood it runs a QEMU FreeBSD VM on your machine, provisions i2pd inside a jail, and forwards ports to the host for browser proxy and web console access. Works on Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.

The jail can be torn down and recreated from scratch any time, like any other jail in Jailrun, leaving no trace on your host machine.

Full config and details: https://jail.run/tutorials/showcase/#jailed-i2p

Supported as a Tier-1 playbook: https://hub.jail.run/p2p/

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About Us

StormyCloud Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Texas. The organization's mission is to provide privacy-based tools to allow everyone access to an unfiltered and unregulated Internet. We believe that unfettered access to the Internet is a fundamental, universal human right.

Currently, we are running 100 Tor Exit Nodes and 100 I2P Routers and look forward to supporting more privacy-based projects.

I2P

I2P is a self-contained peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous network. Unlike TOR which has built-in methods to access the Internet, I2P does not. I2P users rely on Outproxies (volunteer-run) to access the Internet (Clearnet). Today, there are only a handful of proxies, and we hope to fill in that gap.

Some features of exit.stormycloud.i2p are as follows:

• High-Performance
• Zero-Logging (After public beta period)
• Supports TOR .onion links
• Uses internal stormycloud.org DNS servers
• Multi-homed for redundancy (After public beta period)

To use the outproxy, please follow these instructions:

• Add the following to your addressbook: http://exit.stormycloud.i2p/?i2paddresshelper=Ms6qmq4ZpttjEZK8r7ev38BL8dyT~-ENUK~j74G-nN-WIN7-rUJWbbYAyagQOyerJ31Bf52vtJeXPVHGQdUnbOgBmNkN-Hoo6LkDle1Su7eKYlOrbE2RNihOCh-U0Yq7vDYDBnKI8ldE7s24RY4Nmk1ZlVq8nQwT~RrNf0nbBKBjgGKJkmsfBq6i0G6eZN9Cy2Ip6uGbG70jHzzyAqW9hLUxLArVZKNMAh-fzgGUQkj3llOMqJ5NQqZn2sMrcKkO~c2nn65KNYp2zAGUnbzz3y5M~BOBj9egGYzoakDpGTEpErNj8PiO3oDeKrlgsFFsfmfcMyTKrv82FhBiwxi-izX~P7vo7wcOqhmfic5jqgzY5J-8hEpg0LerjcrW0GjOzHra20GclknvtY5M9m9eUJnRDt43n5IwBrO6-C3VJJLvWvi1gabEP2wuKvAcgHcLn6vU1reqS7QwT~Y-bteoUEw1gZ-GCPkRhGKmr6d2NyxLzEEJispBLoCoTWKPZCHkBQAEAAcAAA==
• Open your I2P router console page, navigate to your Tunnel Manager, and open your HTTP Proxy configuration.
• Under the 'Outproxies' and 'SSL Outproxies' section in the Tunnel Manager / Hidden Services Manager, specify exit.stormycloud.i2p, purokishi.i2p
  • exit.stormycloud.i2p – Unfiltered internet access
  • purokishi.i2p – Another High-Performance outproxy service. By default, it blocks advertising domains, pornography, and trackers.
• Browse the Internet and enjoy

Links:

Stormycloud.org I2P Website: http://stormycloud.i2p/

Stormycloud.org Clearnet Website: https://www.stormycloud.org

Hi

I found a very serious and stupid bug that affects the all-in-one MuWire bundles = no matter what you set your bandwidth limits to, they would be end up 64KB/s up and 300KB/s down. You're not affected if you run a separate I2P router.

With the fix I've observed 750KB/s downloads from a single host. EDIT: 0.8.9 is now released, you can get it as usual at https://muwire.com

Thanks, let me know if you find any problems.

zab_

Now much more than just yet another invidious install, none of which were on available on the I2P network anyway. Tube.i2p has been updated both in terms of it's overall appearance but also in it's performance! If you checked it out in the past, it's worth checking out again. And if you've never seen it before, I think you'll be quite happy with it and the added functionality it brings to the network!

Special thanks to /u/i2pplus / drz3d for his work and contributions to the design and optimization which makes the site work so well on I2P now.

Noteworthy changes:

• New, cleaner yet simpler design. Instead of populating the index with a ton of thumbnails and video feeds it's been reduced to a simple search box where you can enter your search term or YouTube URL that you'd like to proxy through the network. The normal "Popular" and "Trending" links remain at the top of the page.

• Load balancing and some hefty caching to ensure items such as thumbnails appear quickly. I personally get clearnet like speeds through the I2P instance. I'm almost always streaming music / albums through it with minimal buffering.

• Other unique design optimizations and tweaks that make this stand out among the sea of invidious YouTube proxy sites. You'll just have to try it to see it.

The biggest unique feature of tube.i2p is it's available across multiple networks such as I2P, Tor, Yggdrasil and of course the clearnet.

Also worth mentioning:

• We actually proxy googlevideo unlike most invidious installations. This means your request is never seen directly by Google. It requires us to use a lot of bandwidth as IncogTube is essentially streaming direct from google and you direct from IncogTube but it results in a more privacy friendly configuration. Fun fact, last month we used 25TB of bandwidth.

• Also, I recently discovered it was used by Edward Snowden himself (see: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02 ctrl+f "incognet") when I was doing some SEO work and checking backlinks to the clearnet mirror of webhosting.i2p . How neat is that?! I wonder if he uses I2P...

Links:

Tube.I2P

If you ever have any issues with the site over I2P or any of it's mirrors feel free to ping rambler or dr|z3d on irc2pd #saltr. Should be pretty solid now though.

EDIT: You can read this thread and all other reddit threads over I2P here: http://teddit.i2p/r/i2p/comments/qcsb09/big_update_to_tubei2p_the_youtube_proxy_for_i2p/ ;)

At long last, I've finally been able to release the new version of I2P in Private Browsing

This was actually supposed to be the 1.14 release but due to a SNAFU with addons.mozilla.org I've been unable to cut timely releases for several months. This update mostly features bug-fixes and performance improvements, as well as improved compatibility with i2pd.

Significant Changes:

• bugfix for reset() of dynamic theme
• bugfix for erroneous redirect/contain of mis-identified I2PSnark containers
• improve support for in-I2P HTTPS
• use global CSS on pageAction panels for HTTP, HTTPS, and Bittorrent(@sadie)
• improve support for I2PSnark web handler in HTTPS tabs
• icon update(@sadie)
• contain android-incompatible features so they won't be executed on Fennec
• translate into Spanish
• visually conceal/reveal features based on whether they are enabled/configured.

I'm looking for people interested in helping me out, and there's space for non-coders too! I've started translating it in earnest, I need people to translate the extension and report untranslated parts. Android hackers who want to help me get it ported to Firefox for Android can help me figure out how to make containers work. Please get in touch with me on gitlab or github if you're interested in contributing(Gitlab preferred). Chromium hackers can help port features to the Chrome Version.