TorrCoin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7r4osQgWVqKTHdxTlowUVpsVmJRcjF3Y3dtcTVscFhEaW5F
-V On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, David Stainton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> 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 > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Tor2web-talk mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://lists.tor2web.org/listinfo/tor2web-talk >
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