Quote from: Revalin on January 31, 2012, 11:15:45 PM

That's an interesting idea. I wouldn't make the clients mine, though. Not everyone has access to a reasonable mining rig. Just have the clients pay BTC for premium bandwidth. For instance, offer to pay 0.001BTC per MB of transit. That's highly profitable for the relays - it's a 100x markup over premium internet transit. And it'd be a reasonable price for many users who want to go fast.

The two problems I see: 1, you'd have to prepay for your bandwidth, though that's not so bad when you can do very small microtransactions with BTC; 2, if you get your BTC from a non-anonymous source it defeats the purpose of TOR. Clients who care could mine their own; most won't care since they're not worried about a threat strong enough to trace the coins back.

Well that's good idea. I would happily pay for premium bandwidth. Getting coins from anonymous sources would hopefully become easier in future when BTC becomes more widespread. You could meet someone and pay cash or whatever.

R