Yes! I've followed the progress of Loki/Oxen/Session since a talk I gave at HOPE 2020 surveying the field of p2p messaging approaches, and since then a mutual f

Yes! I've followed the progress of Loki/Oxen/Session since a talk I gave at HOPE 2020 surveying the field of p2p messaging approaches, and since then a mutual friend introduced me to the Session/Lokinet team and we had a great meeting. The Oxen/Session approach of having a bunch of crypto-incentivized, investor-subsidized always-on servers to do stuff for you is very powerful and makes a lot of things easier. Where it really shines is supporting iOS devices where the OS gives you very tight constraints on how much CPU and time you can use to connect to a peer and sync messages. I true We decided to start without depending on a cryptocurrency or a cryptocurrency-incentivized network because I don't think we need it. I know some people hate crypto too. I don't but it keeps things cleaner to not depend on it. Also, when it comes to onion routing Tor is a lot more battle-tested and has many more eyes on it, so I'm fairly confident that it's superior to the extent we only need that piece. There is also some actual worrying ambiguity around what happens with lokinet if their coin price drops but their traffic goes up a lot. (Though the same thing could be said of Tor, swapping out "community support" for "coin price", so we may have to roll our own network in the future anyway or give users more options for connecting directly when they feel it's safe to do so.)