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twelvechairs parent
I'll bite with the simple one - How is this different from Tor?

(IMO this and the 'how do you plan to make money for investors' should be in the FAQ)

saurik
There are a number of differences (which one might say would take an entire whitepaper to describe ;P), but as one high-level and in my mind very interesting example, Tor actually is a centralized service where nine directory servers are able to decide the state of the network; we are accepting nothing less than a fully-decentralized system.
lawl
I'd really like to see a comparison to TOR. Because honestly, from randomly clicking through the website I don't see why you're better than TOR and why I should use ORCHID.

I cannot (easily) find answers to pretty much every question I have, and sorry, I'm not going to read through a 50 page whitepaper before I decide if it's worth it.

What is it, onion routing? There's some talk of ethereum, so presumably you can get eth for spending traffic? Exit nodes? hidden services? (I'm not going to run an exit node for obvious reasons)

Maybe I'm just tired or stupid but I can't really find anything that isn't marketing blurbs without going through the whitepaper?

RhodesianHunter
"I'm not going to read through a 50 page whitepaper before I decide if it's worth it."

It sounds like this project is probably a little too early stage for you then?

Maybe let people play with it for a couple if years and distill it down a bit. If it still exists maybe try again.

lawl
> It sounds like this project is probably a little too early stage for you then? > Maybe let people play with it for a couple if years and distill it down a bit. If it still exists maybe try again.

I don't have a problem reading a whitepaper. But there's approx. 12 billion new etherum startups a day. So I just think a little tl;dr would be nice to know if it's something I care about. Because right now I don't know if I should care early stage.

hossbeast
If only there was a document describing the details of the design that you could read
lawl
I mean, I already said I know about the whitepaper. I'm very sorry that I ask for a bit more of a tl;dr of it when there's another new hot blockchain startup. Eh, you know, one of those you see every other day. Why not leave it to them to decide if they want to acknowledge my feedback or not?

I'm not forcing anyone to do anything here.

woodandsteel
Yeah, I have the same problem. My solution has been to ask specific questions, saurik is good at answering those.
twistypencil
That isn't very precise.

Tor's nine directory servers are not run by tor itself. One employee runs one of the nine, the rest are different people from around the world, with different affiliations who are not under the control of Tor. You must get a majority of the directory servers to block something from the network, before it will be blocked. Its not any one of the nine that can do it, they need to convince five other people, none of whom they control, to also block before it is actually accepted.

How do you plan on dealing with abuse? Sybil attacks, or bad actors on the network?

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