Sorry perhaps I didn't explain well enough. What I was pointing to was that tor could benefit from the idea of cheaply crowd sponsored relays that use ansible, chef or puppet to spin up for a month. That the article is about bitcoin is merely coincidental. -J On 06/26/2014 05:35 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
jason@icetor.is wrote:
This seems pretty damn similiar to something we should be offering for Tor relays, possibly even exits and bridges (if they only run for a month at a time). Possibly co-ordinated through the EFF?
http://www.coindesk.com/adopt-node-project-aims-bolster-bitcoin-network-secu...
Assuming that the relevant bitcoin programs could be taught to talkSOCKS, then it seems that tor hidden services would, in principle if not in performance, be an ideal solution. Running those bitcoin "full" nodes as hidden services might well make them less vulnerable to being shut down by currency counterfeiters (e.g., the Federal Reserve and the central banks of other states, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury). Performance of hidden services, however, are severely constrained by the hidden services protocol, which can slow connection times enough to make one consider USnail as a possible alternative, and the need for circuits of 2n-1 relays, which makes access even slower than normal tor circuits of n relays.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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