> Running the actual network The ideal would require no servers, because the chat would be fully peer to peer. People wanting to be anonymous could just connec

> Running the actual network The ideal would require no servers, because the chat would be fully peer to peer. People wanting to be anonymous could just connect through Tor. (Each user account is just a private key, etc, etc.) Of course, in reality everything is behind a NAT and/or firewall. It wouldn't be too difficult to have "dumb" servers that just exist to pass messages hosted by the community though.