i'm being polite because i assume you don't realise i've been involved with Tor since 2006 (look for David Vennik in the tor mailing list archives) and i gave up on Tor because they didn't want to talk about a way to monetise tor node operating, which i perceived as a long term vulnerability that would slow the expansion and thus weaken the security of the network
i haven't been wrong about that either, there has been several cases of breaches of anonymity on Tor, Ross Ulbricht is the most famous one
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Ty that would be a correct assumption. :)
Agree, monetization of decentralized protocols is key. Without an economic incentive they will forever be niche and vulnerable. I'm working to create an economic incentive for btc block template production.
What do you think about other anonymizing network infra projects? I know bitcoin nodes can operate on clearnet, tor, I2P, and cjdns but I haven't studied them enough to understand the differences. I have heard about something else called nym, but it's run by a company 😒.
There is an alternate timeline somewhere where I dug in and became a btc p2p expert but that's not how the cookie crumbled.