My hot take after 3 mins of scanning and not reading into detail: combining different protocols and things together (into one basket, nested in a way that is not compartmentalised and insulated well) sounds like a bad idea. Browser privacy (and even more, anonymity) is a nightmare. We already have multiple torified OS offerings to torify whole systems (how would this make torrents easier if it’s still Tor?) We should prioritise software like tor at the OS / non-browser level to torify Zcash nodes. One protocol (WebRTC) in the same basket (the browser) less private than the other weakens the stronger protocol (Tor). Seems complex and solution looking for a problem? What does it offer that other things don’t? Nothing spoke to me right away, just my hot take, could be wrong. One thing we need is core full, old fashioned zcash nodes running on Tor IPs (whether raw ip (v4/v6), or .onion), whose node behaviour metadata and signatures are indistinguishable from existing zcashd nodes. (Otherwise they have a distinctly different network-level anonymity set to sniffing nodes, even if also a Tor IP.) I know there’s snowflake for Tor though (runs in browser, it’s a type of Tor bridge, i.e. ‘node’ of sorts). But it needs ‘network effect’ and Zcash is struggling with its existing node anonymity set, as I’m investing currently.
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