Hi all,
Christopher William Turner wrote: > Jim wrote: > > >>regarding adding micropayments to freenet. Good idea? Bad Idea? Since I >> > > Essential idea. Anonymity without digital cash payment is GUARENTEED to > be abused. > > I sometimes can't find info on freenet, yet theory says it should be > there > unless all datastores are full. I would love to specify a HTL of 255 to > ensure I find it but we can't allow that for everyone for free. > So I suggest payment for large HTL. So the one who has money can retreive more data than the poor one? I think this is not a free way of information exchange, except if the rules for payment are designed very carefully. And requirement for a carefull design is a bad feature I think. Is money the only way to prevent misuse? Is it a good way? Maybe a better idea for the HTL problem would be HTLs that are not guaranteed if they are high. A node could decrease an HTL by more than the randomly chosen 0 or 1 if it finds the net being overloaded. Hmm, would such a flood detection be possible? > Also I want to place data on freenet and be sure it stays there. If I > offer > a payment and expiry date when I place the data, then my data could be > spared the LRU chop and more nodes may be willing to store a copy. > So if somebody pays more their data gets stored better? I don't want a net where the richer people have better opportunities. Ok, technical reasons often create the same situation. And If I provide a data store to the net I don't want to have data stored on my hard disc that somebody else gets paid for. I.e. I want to be that person. Since nobody should be able to know which data is stored where, the mony somebody pays must be distributed equally among all the people who provide a node. The larger the data store you provide, the higher the bandwidth and the more often your node is online, the larger is the percentage of the total amount of paid mony you will get. And if somebody clears her/his store - e.g. by reinstalling freenet - this person should get somewhat less money because of the lost data. Is such concept doable? Herbert -- Herbert Stocker herbert .at. blaxxun.de AKA hersto. hersto .at. hersto.de _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
