On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 19:55:53 Matthew Toseland wrote: > Would you pay to join opennet? Bear in mind that a paid system could have an > interesting level of security - not quite up to that of a real darknet, but > most attacks would be *far* more expensive. > > When I say pay, I mean pay once, to create a node. You can then stay on > opennet for as long as you like. > > And there'd be a fallback: Transient mode. Less anonymity, but it could still > use tunnels. Significantly less performance. What paying to join opennet gets > you (along with having some specified amount of bandwidth per peer), is the > ability to be part of the *backbone*, i.e. the storage network. Hopefully the > network would be somewhat faster because of the bandwidth requirements. And > it would have proper tunnels. > > Straw poll, but thoughts welcome. Some of the technical details spelled out > on the 1.0 proposal (http://piratepad.net/TQYpA3SDu7 ). No idea re legal > issues. > > Existing users would likely be grandfathered in, for a limited period and > subject to the same bandwidth requirements (and IP address requirements). > To clarify: Transient mode would be free, and you could still use tunnels, but it would probably not be as secure as being part of the backbone, and certainly significantly slower. Security would probably be roughly comparable to the current opennet, whereas for paid nodes it would be much greater.
If you would pay to join the opennet backbone, how much would you pay?
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