I am not the creator of joinstr, I am just saying why the creator has used the VPN option. The protocol is not even on mainnet and as far as I know, using tor circuits is an expected improvement. I am aware that the right approach is wabisabi's. My post was mostly to emphasize whirpool's disastrous design in managing network connections. https://gitlab.com/invincible-privacy/joinstr/-/blob/main/NIP.md?ref_type=heads