Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-19 Thread lists
On Freitag, 17. März 2023 17:25:10 CET Bauruine wrote: > ... but I'll > just keep "mining" consensus weight. Because you don't need a modified > version of Tor and you don't need the blockchain for that. Just download > the consensus and look at the consensus weight and you have your proof > of

Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Bauruine
From what I read it looks like they plan to create some blockchain that uses "Proof-of-relaying-Tor-traffic" as an alternative to Proof of Work or Proof of Stake. From their blog "rather than requiring complex off-chain verification or arbitrary computation to prevent bad actors receiving

Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Leon D
So they’re just a cryptocurrency mining company? I’m not 100% sure how they are able to use Tor Relays to mine Cryptocurrency? On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 11:53, Richie wrote: > ator.org actually works. They try to get Relay Operators to mine/receive > their cryptocurrency through uptime, see

Re: [tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-17 Thread Richie
ator.org actually works. They try to get Relay Operators to mine/receive their cryptocurrency through uptime, see https://docs.ator.io/ . Also some hardware plans regarding Wifi routers with preinstalled "ator" software/routing. Personally, i'd say "kill it with fire", but well, thats just me

[tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

2023-03-16 Thread Christian Pietsch via tor-relays
Dear Tor community, maybe the notes from the Tor relay operator meetup on March 4 should have mentioned that a participant called AirTor was kicked from that BBB conference. This happened because they were using “Tor” in their name and continued to make dubious offers like the one below which