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Re: [2020-09-10] Privacy Startup Nym Will Pay You in Bitcoin to Run Its Mixnet
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Aveatrex
on 13/09/2020, 14:15:50 UTC
i'm not sure paying users to run Nym node (?) is best solution to solve the fact that there's no incentive to run a node.

Why not? The more running nodes there is the more secure the network gets, I don't see why incentivizing people to run nodes would hurt in this case. In fact, this could solve one of Tor's potential problems imo; The fact that Tor doesn't have *many* nodes increases the chances of having people connect to 5 nodes runned by the same entity/person and potentially have their privacy compromised. Same applies to most cryptocurrencies too I guess? With better distribution of hashrate, the network becomes more resistant to attacks.