Posts by Viktor Vecsei

Launch of IVPN Light - short-term VPN access paid with BTC Lightning
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Launch of IVPN Light - short-term VPN access paid with BTC Lightning

Equipped with a BTC Lightning wallet and some sats, you can now set up an IVPN WireGuard tunnel in minutes without creating an account or sharing any personal information. Benefits of using IVPN Light: Short duration access option, you can get a “throwaway” VPN tunnel for 3 hours or up to 30 days duration Priced in sats and affordable - you can purchase access for as little as 500 sats (3 hours) Access up to 5 locations or 1 entry-exit node MultiHop combination with one payment No account required - we only keep a record of your Lightning payment on our self-hosted BTCPayServer, no personal information is collected Differences versus a regular IVPN subscription:

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WireGuard Port Forwarding enabled
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WireGuard Port Forwarding enabled

July 2023 update: Port Forwarding is being phased out from the IVPN service and is no longer offered to new customers. You can find more information in a blog post about this change. After the recent addition of Multi-Hop for WireGuard, we are now introducing port forwarding support for Wireguard.

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Battery life improvements with Apple silicon builds
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Battery life improvements with Apple silicon builds

We have tested the battery consumption rate of the IVPN app with constant VPN connectivity using two protocols (WireGuard and OpenVPN) on two different app builds (M1 and Intel). We concluded that using a dedicated Apple silicon app build with WireGuard protocol can offer up to 22% increase in battery life over OpenVPN on Intel build version when bandwidth is not limited.

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