Quote from: cleavey on August 05, 2017, 03:56:10 PM

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Quote from: bluewhackadoo on August 04, 2017, 04:22:24 AM

Check out http://deeponion.org website for info, sounds like what you are describing and their team is currently doing free weekly airdrops of this crypto.

It looks interesting, but I don't think owning deeponion tokens incentivises being an active node on the tor network. I think when they claim it helps the network, it does so by the wallets adding to the pool of ips using tor. BTW that is some steep requirement for being in the airdrop, not that I can participate even if I did post a lot (my account is too new by a few days).

Quote from: dreamer81 on August 04, 2017, 11:25:59 AM

Do you mean Mysterium???
https://mysterium.network/

it's sort of a VPN service with tokens. Problem is that all those who will accept their private connections to route traffic, can be sued for letting illegal traffic through

That is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, thanks. Is this the only one, or do they have competition? Looks like they are early in the development process, but it's one to watch.

DeepOnion does use a mix of PoW and PoS. So technically you are rewarded with extra coins if you leave your wallet running.

I wasn't clear in the post you quoted. Yes you're rewarded for keeping the wallet active, but your wallet doesn't act as a middle relay (receive tor traffic and pass it on to another relay), which is what I meant by being an active node on the tor network.

Quote from: youngwebs on August 04, 2017, 10:46:10 PM

Yeah, as already mentioned deeponion is most likely the closest you can get to what you described!

Close but no cigar. I'm interested in DeepOnion because it focuses on anonymously transferring currency, using a proven system, and imo there is demand for something like that, but unless wallets are middle relays it doesn't fulfill what I asked for. It may seem subtle but it's a big difference. If instead of the usual PoW mining DeepOnion has, they had a PoW system of incentivising being a middle relay, then it would be what I described.

You could try to suggest that to the dev, he's been quite receptive about all sorts of input. Although I'm not sure if this can really be done in retrospection without screwing with the coin supply. Perhaps if it was funded through transfer fees? But that would require a larger network adoption, so perhaps that would become a viable option in the future.