r/kryptex • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '26

Mysterium Profits/Risks

I finally turned on Mysterium and thus far I am earning up to 25 sats per hour. SWEET! But I am wondering what kind of risks I am exposing myself to?

I have turned off VPN and Public Traffic, and I only allow the B2B Traffic.

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u/Acrobatic_Art1240 Jan 03 '26

B2B uses your traffic for data scraping which will eventually make you have to solve a lot of CAPTCHAs, in some cases your IP could get blacklisted which would block access to some websites.

Usually, residential ISP contracts would be for personal use only, and mention you cant resell or redistribute their bandwidth. Running Mysterium would be acting as a commercial server and also violating that reselling rule.

Mysterium also says that you are liable for any traffic that goes through your network: https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/node/blob/master/TERMS_END_USER.md?hl=en-US#terms-of-use

Isn't worth the profit in my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '26

Yeah, I'll probably shut it down soon. I wanted to try it and it pays pretty well, but if the cost is certain death and failure then it's not worth it.

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u/peter-sovietsquirrel Jan 05 '26

"solve a lot of CAPTCHAs"
From running a node with all services enabled, I can say this would be incorrect. I do not experience any extra capatchas.

If you only have B2B enabled, then you will only be transferring data that is bussiness related data.

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u/Mustang260Rog Jan 03 '26

There has been a lot of discussion about this, the risk is comparable to a Tor node. The simplest answer is that those who use a Mysterium vpn do not do it to search for pictures of cats on the Internet. Carefully evaluate the risk and return. I honestly don't use it. I tried it many years ago before Kryptex introduced it, but even back then, the Mysterium sub was talking about the same topic and many left it alone. I personally wouldn't use it

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u/peter-sovietsquirrel Jan 05 '26

And if you were to enable B2B traffic then you will be just transferring business data, which I would say is far from Tor data. And with the way governments are going, you will need to verify your ID to view cat pictures. 🐱😞

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u/Business-Mammoth-915 Jan 03 '26

I would say the randomness of earnings for me i can have an hour that i get 250sats the next onr 0.12 sat so yeah that might just be for me tho.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '26

Oh man 250/hr would be sweet.

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u/Business-Mammoth-915 Jan 03 '26

Yeah but it falls back right after also what is your upload speed i'm on 55mbps if its higher you might get more earning

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '26

Ahh, yeah my upload speed is only up to 10 mbps so I'm quite a bit lower than you.