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by Jenk 1838 days ago
From my rudimentary understanding (i.e., what I've just read on the homepage) I don't know how "blockchain" fits into this, but I could make a guess that api signatures are "blockchain verified"?

From that same rudimentary understanding, I would also expect performance to be comparable to Tor.

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> Anyone with a laptop, mobile or any connected device can earn $EDGE tokens by providing spare computational and storage capacity to the network. $EDGE tokens can be traded for Edge services, or converted into dollars, pounds or euros.

Seems like the product is mostly an excuse to push yet another cryptocoin scheme

Ugh.
I assume it's used to pay people for offering their computational power onto the network