On 30/11/15 15:55, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 30/11/15 15:48, Ian Clarke wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 3. Opennet is not secure unless users pay for introduction. >> Who would they pay, and how would this be implemented in a decentralized >> way? > In the first instance they would pay *us* via a Kickstarter. In the long > run there might be other options e.g. provable sacrifice of Bitcoins. >> Given that we already have a shrinking userbase despite Freenet being free, >> why do you think people will be willing to pay to use it? Won't this >> dramatically shrink our userbase to a tiny core of enthusiasts, which will >> provide far less cover traffic and thus reduce security? > No, because it won't happen unless we get at least 10,000 users/donors. > Isn't there a "we won't charge you unless we raise the minimum" thing > for Kickstarter? > > And people could still use Freenet in transient mode. In fact we might > even allow an intermediate mode: Routes traffic but not tunnels and high > priority traffic. Sorry, I mean high-HTL traffic here. To answer the rest of your question, I believe a Kickstarter, some substantial software improvements and publicity, and a substantial improvement in both security and performance, could have significant benefits for our userbase. Publicity always gets us new users. But please read the rest of my previous response. > But they wouldn't get good performance unless they > become a core infrastructure opennet node.
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