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The fundamental problem with this is that it's charity / freeloading. I don't mean this as an ethical complaint, just that the economic incentive isn't there.
by gnode 8y ago
The fundamental problem with this is that it's charity / freeloading. I don't mean this as an ethical complaint, just that the economic incentive isn't there.
I could imagine cryptocurrency potentially offering a solution to this which solves both issues of trust and economics, but it would be a challenge to guarantee its security.
- chii 8y agoit would be nice if TOR had reciprocity where a user using it will also donate some network bandwidth. But i guess that might not really work since it forces you to run an exit node, which is where the dangers of running TOR is currently.
- gnode 8y agoThat's not actually true; nodes can be non-exit and relay only. This helps insofar as to reduce the relaying load on the exits too.
- BicyclRepairMan 8y agoI seem to remember implementations like this already being in formation. Jay Freeman (aka saurik) is working on one called Orchid with a handful of other big names IIRC. I think I read about it here on YC.
- solarkraft 8y agoIt would be easy to make the Tor browser also a tor node. This would unfortunately however have negative effects for users depending on secrecy, I think.