[Freedombox-discuss] Dumb idea: Alternative to Tor that promotes good behavior

[The Doctor]

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On 10/27/2013 01:19 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> With secret identities in the social network, it is less important
>  to keep transactions and the trust network secret, which was a 
> problem in the original Ripple algorithm.  I imagine transactions

The Ripple protocol was not designed for anonymity, but simpler
transactions and exchange of currency.  You might want to look elsewhere.

> being done in tiny fractions of a cent, for services like helping 
> download files faster in a torrent or providing encrypted storage.

What about transfer ratios?  They served as a good motivator for
uploading on BBSes back in the day, and on private BitTorrent trackers
now.

> I believe the retroshare project (noted on this list many times)
> is in the process of implementing a P2P ripple (a la Ryan Fugger's 
> original protocol) system, or have done so already.  Dr Bob told
> me you can plug

There is already a marriage of Retroshare and Bitcoin called ZeroReserve:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.cryptography.randombit/4828

https://github.com/zeroreserve/ZeroReserve

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