Open eloquence opened 8 years ago
ASBaumgarten
commented
8 years ago What would adding the VPN support do for ZeroNet? As it is now there are no sites within the network that would immensely benefit from the better speeds of a VPN instead of Tor. The only site that streams any sort of media is GIF Time.
Also I believe you have mistaken, "using Bitcoin cryptography," for just, "using Bitcoin." ZeroNet is just using its own version of the Blockchain, which is what Bitcoin runs off of.
eloquence
commented
8 years ago Hi @ASBaumgarten , it's true that current users wouldn't benefit immensely from it. I saw a BitTorrent directory, but it still pointed to externally tracked .torrents. The fact though that we're seeing these early uses, combined with ZeroNet's native use of BT for file distribution and the recently added capability to only serve some files belonging to a site initially, all suggest that it might come in handy soon.
Re: Bitcoin, with "BTC friendly" I was talking about stuff like generated addresses and private keys being Bitcoin-compatible, as explicitly noted in the FAQ. That's not a statement about the feasibility/complexity of this idea -- I don't know how feasible it is.
ghost
commented
7 years ago I think this is interesting but far beyond the scope of zeronet,
Zeronet now support plugins. Best would be to start a plugin and mesure the interest around it.
Regardless of the feasibility, I sincerly doubt it will append here.
For many users, Tor level anonymity may be overkill and slow the connection down more than necessary. Proxying your traffic through someone else's ZeroNet node may be sufficient to provide VPN style protection. Since ZeroNet is already BTC friendly, perhaps integrating a lightweight market for such services would be consistent with the overall philosophy of the project?