> Perhaps I did not express myself very well. I want to store several TB on > Tahoe-LAFS nodes behind NATs. This is not a super-expensive high-tech exascale > project; just a few Raspberry Pis with external hard drives, distributed > around my friends' houses, total cost well under US$1000. > Your onion grid may well be small, but if I try to use Tor as a NAT-piercing > technology then it means using on the order of 100 TB of bandwidth on the Tor > network (connections to a .onion server go through six intermediate nodes; > multiply that by the redundancy setting and add a bit more to account for > downloading the data again and you have a factor of 20+ times the data being > stored). I think using 100 TB of volunteers' bandwidth counts as leeching.
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