mining crypto with your internet?!?!

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NetworkChuck explains and sets up Mysterium, a decentralized VPN, as a way to earn cryptocurrency — MYST tokens — by sharing unused internet bandwidth as a node runner, stressing this is not financial advice. He contrasts a centralized VPN, where one company controls servers and could in theory hold logs and banking details, with Mysterium, where users connect through residential nodes run by other people, so sites see the node owner’s residential IP address, helping with geo-unblocking because streaming services block known VPN IPs rather than residential ones. Identity, he explains, is a random blockchain address rather than name/email/card details, traffic uses WireGuard/OpenVPN, and payment is pay-as-you-go in crypto; he cites rates of about 0.005 MYST per hour and 0.0913 MYST per gigabyte, with MYST at 50 cents as he states it. Most payment, he says, goes to the node runner. Risks he names: an ISP may object to running a VPN service at home, other people’s traffic exits under your IP, mitigated partly by Mysterium allow/block lists with network slicing described as coming, and only one node is allowed per public IP address. The walkthrough flashes Raspberry Pi OS Lite 32-bit with the Imager’s hidden Ctrl+Shift+X menu to enable SSH and Wi-Fi, finds the Pi’s IP in the router, SSHes in as user pi, adds the Mysterium repository and its public key after an apt signature error, runs apt update and apt install myst, claims the node via mystnodes.com, sets a MetaMask ERC-20 wallet as the withdrawal address, notes free daily registration can be capped with a $1 card purchase as the alternative he used, and shows a dashboard of sessions from countries including the Netherlands, India, Morocco and Egypt.

Key takeaways

Mysterium node runners earn MYST by sharing spare bandwidth and a residential IP
Decentralized design means no central Mysterium servers or account identity, per creator
Risks: ISP objections and others’ traffic exiting under your IP; one node per public IP
Pi setup: Lite OS, headless SSH/Wi-Fi, add repo and key, apt install myst
Claim the node via mystnodes.com, add a MetaMask ERC-20 wallet; $1 purchase if free registration is capped

Episode details: published January 26, 2022 · 29:25 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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