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With a self-sovereign identity, you are in control. Our IETF draft + running code: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01#sec... Our goverment even sponsors this work. Decentral, no need for Russian servers.

The Truth is determined by the rich! Majority voting by token owners determines the facts. You just can't make up stuff like this.

Curious how this will play out. Threshold for contributing is non-trivial, so the wasteland scenario is my academic guess. The contribution scoring and ranking will help, but can you be anonymous?

Incorrect. You need to check the box in settings called 'become exit node'.

Thnx for mentioning us btw! With 13 years running and our bandwidth token for Bittorrent (no ICO) it seems we're the only team left doing innovations. All other p2p teams seem to have died in the p2p winter.

17 years later, this is still true: the web is mostly controlled by profit-seeking entities.

> Myth #3: The Net Is Too Filled With Hackers To Control

True, very few development teams are able to resit for more then a few years. Then they break. [Plug] My university lab has been one of the few operating for 19 years now. Radical and academic purity of decentralisation: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#current-items-under-... Goveranance of decentral system and stopping abuse collectively has proven the hardest scientific problem. Requires growing trust without any infrastructure.

> supports seeds and peer discovery, message passing, maybe firewall / UPNP support, etc.

Our audacious 'IPv8' work is now deployed live. Might fit you needs. Includes above features in a low-complexity approach. https://github.com/Tribler/py-ipv8 Our fresh IETF Internet Standard draft of this work: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-00

Our Dev Docs: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

> this matters because most basic research ends up being commercially useful eventually

That is quite a positive view. As a university professor I see a lot of speculative work. It is presented as fundamental, but makes assumption which do not hold in the real world. Hence a lot is mostly ignored.

please note that we at Delft University of Technology have been working on a similar bandwidth-as-a-currency system since August 2007.

BBC New article from 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6971904.stm Running decentral market code and tech portfolio: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

Notes after reading your whitepaper, latency and complexity matter. We copied the Tor packet layout and deployed a simple NAT puncture method to avoid difficulties. Your proposed approach looks like many years of work.

Facinating work. How much work for full hidden services?

btw aware of our Python-based Tor implementation, with modifications for full decentralisation and deployment? https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

can this handle a trivial Sybil attack? That seems to be the drawback of a graph or DAG-based approach. -ledger scientist

interesting. Are their implementations of ipex-project.org ideas?

responsible faculty member for this paper here. Note this is a student paper for course credits, not a full scientific paper.

We are on track to put our blockchain-regulated decentral market live this summer: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/2559