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by foota 1900 days ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of domain is this?
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saurik 1900 days ago
I work on a "streaming" probabilistic nanopayments system that is used for (initially) multihop VPN-like service from randomly selected providers; it is called Orchid.

https://github.com/OrchidTechnologies/orchid

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SavantIdiot 1900 days ago
How did you fall into such a niche? I don't mean that as a pejorative. It just seems so specific. And esoteric to me.
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Apofis 1900 days ago
It's a VPN Service that uses cryptocurrency as a means of payment.

What seems really esoteric to me is that the 'Orchid' Ethereum Token has a $737,057,000.00 fully diluted market cap, which I'm struggling to understand: https://etherscan.io/token/0x4575f41308ec1483f3d399aa9a2826d...

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saurik 1900 days ago
I dunno... Brian Fox (the developer of bash) got involved, and he tapped me (someone he has worked with before) as a combination networking and security expert? FWIW, if you describe anything with the technical precision I just did, almost anything will sound "esoteric" ;P.
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