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by dasmithii 4046 days ago
Please oh please help the Tor network. You will be eternally loved.
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Haha wow, you could set up a pretty impressive number of relays for that much money.
Do I remember right that the Tor project wouldn't accept a very large number of relays from a single party because it gives too much influence over the network?
IIRC, it takes about 50% of the network to do so. This is a waste of $100k though, as the network is only used by a small number of people, and this would be a permanent sinkhole of the money and these added servers would simply disappear after a year.

This guy/gal definitely needs something more interesting. Perhaps something meaningful, or perhaps just something insanely cool. A temporary addition to an existing worker farm is not a great idea.

It would be great to help Tor and set up a ton of relays. But then again how much can we trust Amazon? And unfortunately AWS doesn't allow exit nodes.

A good alternative is Folding@Home