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It is always preferred to require less resources. There must be a healthy balance. If Ethereum accomplishes what a lot of us hope, allowing home-hobbyists to ru
by seibelj 5y ago
It is always preferred to require less resources. There must be a healthy balance. If Ethereum accomplishes what a lot of us hope, allowing home-hobbyists to run nodes and at least break-even in staking or profit a small amount will be crucial. Relying on goodwill from a small amount of technically-adept-yet-centralized operators is how we get to the Tor situation where everyone knows the government runs most of the exit nodes.
- dannyw 5y agoGenuine question: can crypto economics provide incentives for a more decentralised Tor? I'm talking about being paid crypto for hosting a tor node, and charged crypto for using a tor node. Using privacy technologies like ring signatures of course.
- ric2b 5y agoTechnologies like payment channels would allow for automatic pay-as-you-go schemes where your Tor client would pay sub-cent amounts for every MB used or whatever. But privacy is indeed a big challenge since we're talking about Tor.
- qualudeheart 5y agoMysterium and other decentralized vpns let you do that.
- thecrash 5y agoIt's an interesting idea, and being worked on by Nym https://nymtech.net/ https://nymtech.net/