[rakoo]

Note that this already exists in the form of Bitcloud [0].

I'm skeptical about putting it in every conversation. If every peer has to pay to work on the internet, it will make bigger peers more important (because they have more resources) and it will force everyone to mine (instead of having only a minority of people mining today)

[0] http://bitcloudproject.org/

[Ihmahr]

I hate to bring it to you, but bitcloud doesn't exist and probably never will, for good reason. The gnunet is very similar to what bitcloud would like to be, and it already exists for something like 10 years. Bitcloud.. is just a fantasy at this point. And i2p also works similarly. In i2p you need to have shared some bandwidth in order to get higher speeds. And there is also Tor, which runs on altruism. Bitcloud is just trying to attach mining and coin like properties to something that doesn't need it. If you want to add incentivesed routing, why not fork one of these projects and add it in? Lastly, there is no idea yet from the bitcloud community on how to securely add and integrate incentivesed routing.

[rakoo]

I didn't know I2P also had some incentive system attached, but it doesn't sound like it's going as far as what the post is describing. I was just mentioning bitcloud because that's what they propose to do, I haven't followed their actual progress (maybe because there is none ?)

Concerning Tor, as far as I understand the incentive part is only active to make sure your host has a good enough average uptime, right ?