The last time I looked into it, exit nodes have a long “ramp up” period of many days. If this is still true, you’re not going to be serving much purpose with a collection of transient nodes.

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leni536 4 days ago | parent [-]

How is that trust anchored? To public IPs or to public keys?

	▲	mitxela 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not trust, it's uptime. Tor trusts only the directory authorities, not any nodes. A node that is going up and down won't be used much. They can be used as middle nodes, since those are ephemeral. If it's IP, it will be the incoming IP, not outgoing. You might want a stable central node that routes outgoing traffic to the currently active transient edge node. You can't move a fingerprint's IP without bringing it down, anyway, because the directory consensus is cached for a while and your node will look down to other nodes until they get the latest one.