The "torcoin" idea is SUSPICIOUS (and makes me think of a thousand conspiracy theories). What is "torcoin"? How can I most effectively and systematically completely destroy this idea? The good news is that we don't need it, it's not endorsed by the Tor Project... and it'll never work. The non-financial-incentivizing ideas in your post sound OK... perhaps a bit unnecessary.
Sincerely, David On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Virgil Griffith <i...@virgil.gr> wrote: > For a while I've been seeking to grow the Tor network in both size and > goodput. Towards this end, I've explored various avenues such as increasing > user-awareness via tor2web. More recently, I've been exploring financial > incentives like TorCoin. > > Not wanting to strictly limit ourselves to financial incentives, I began > reading the literature on incentivizing volunteers. The most relevant > papers I found are: > > * http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/LMS2_ManSci-Paper-Final.pdf > * http://pareto.uab.es/~prey/gneezy_254.pdf > * https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3308162/Slonim%202013.pdf > > The most relevant of these papers (Lacetera 2013) cites the major > motivations for volunteer labor are: "pure altruism, warm glow, self-image, > and reputation". Upon reading this I realized TorCoin's technical > interestingness had blinded me to much easier to leverage motivations of > "warm glow" and "reputation". > > I propose the following system for harnessing "warm glow" and "reputation" > for Tor relay operators. I am willing to fund this in its entirety. > > I propose establishing a subdomain on torproject.org giving each Tor relay > operator (hereafter affectionately called "Torati") his/her own page using > the information her machines provide to the Tor Directory Consensus. The > fields to show on her "Torati profile page" would be things like: > ContactInfo, PGP fingerprint, list of server nicknames, date the Directory > Authorities first saw her contact info, etc. You can also imagine a > receiving special "special recognition stars" for operating an exit or > bridge node. Moreover, some bandwidth measurement like EigenSpeed or > TorCoin gain traction, the Torati page could recognize contributors with by > listing the sum total she has relayed to the Tor network. > > Naturally a node can opt-out of Torati recognition by setting a parameter in > the torrc file. > > I argue this would be a cheap and easy way to motivate operators to > volunteer more bandwidth for the Tor network. As mentioned before, I am > willing to fund this in its entirety. > > -Virgil > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev