460 sats \ 2 replies \ @phaedrus 13 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: Tor Is Under Attack And Bitcoiners Must Help Fix It bitcoin
Can you provide quick summary how is Indra better than Tor?
I forgot the most important
- Scales because users can pay the routers. Tor network has stagnated at 6000 nodes for almost a decade.
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Pure source routing, no latency negotiating onion layers, all done via session purchase.
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Because of source routing, there can be embedded onions inside packets that follow arbitrary paths back to the sender, like traceroute for tcp/ip, meaning there can be strong latency minimisation guarantees and long living connections, two things that are painful with Tor's telescoping model.
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