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> We are building a micro-economy without banks, without advertisers, and without any government

But with government funding?

OP said they already have a working system. How well it works remains to be seen, until it's publicly available.

On what basis do you assume he/she has not succeeded without even having seen their work?

We tried too. Several people have made DHT sniffers, including our lab. You see lots of spam and get stuck. Filtering out the noise is weirdly hard.

So you're assuming they cannot possibly have succeeded simply because you failed?

these things need spam measures to work. That was not listed as a feature.

Tribler is an interesting project, but not directly comparable to what the OP is trying to achieve.

indeed, bit different. lots of people worked in this field and made these tools. Around 2014 the state of the art was 20k DHT responses per second, see '100 million DHT replies'. https://doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2014.6934318

Thanks for the pointer!

I just read some interesting proposals in the GH issues and recognized your username. This is some nice piece of work - will definitely return to read more about the underlying concepts.

We are working in a similar area with similar problems: Building a new Tor/VPN-like privacy network. See https://safing.io/spn/

Taking this chance to say thank you for Safing Portmaster it is awesome!

Who is funding it and why?

If you follow through to the site linked in the Github:

> Tribler is a research project of Delft University of Technology

> Work on Tribler has been supported by multiple Internet research European grants. In total we received 3,538,609 Euro in funding for our open source self-organising systems research. Roughly 10 to 15 scientists and engineers work on it full-time. Our ambition is to make darknet technology, security and privacy the default for all Internet users.

> Vision & Mission ... "Push the boundaries of self-organising systems, robust reputation systems and craft collaborative systems with millions of active participants under continuous attack from spammers and other adversarial entities."

The "robust reputation systems" made me twitch a bit...

See the latest 2022 algorithm called MeritRank [1]. Improves on the prior work developed together with Harvard. We deployed roughly 5 generation in the past 17 years. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09950

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