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Board Project Development
Use Bitcoin to reward Bittorrent and TOR nodes
by
fimp
on 19/06/2011, 10:44:00 UTC
Bittorrent and TOR is often unstable and slow to use. But what if you as a user could specify in your Bittorrent/TOR client the amount of Bitcoins you are willing to pay per megabyte of received data? Your client would then send Bitcoins to nodes serving you content.

Nodes could claim different prices for serving different data. If an authority is looking extra hard to jail sharers of a certain movie or website, a node could specify a higher price for uploading this exact content.

Imagine Bittorrent being stable enough to stream movies and music directly. Imagine TOR being fast enough to use for all your browsing.

Is anyone working on this?