>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I'm thinking along the lines of #2. Thereby giving people an incentive to run >nodes and expand freenet more quickly. > >BTW, here is the best explanation I've found so far of anonymous, untraceable >digital currency. It was at: >http://www.freehaven.net/doc/oreilly/micropayments.txt
We don't need anonymous, untraceable digital currency if we're just transferring money between neighbor nodes, as they already have a non-anonymous relationship. I'm not really worried about the bookkeeping aspect (which is what digital currency gets you) as I am the practical issue of transferring money between random people who probably aren't even in the same country--if there's a payments system in freenet, money will tend to flow from people running transient nodes to people running dedicated routing/caching nodes on high-bandwidth connections (who will then presumably use the money to pay for that connection). Digital Currency schemes usually involve one or more trusted 'banks' that have the practical ability to recive and send payments anywhere--Do we need to have one of those? Would some random individual(s) with a CC vendor account and a secure server be sufficient? -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
