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Anonymous · 3mo · No.61
Does anyone here participate in one of those "people's mesh nets", like Freifunk, NYC Mesh, AWMN... Or maybe there are gemblogs about that?
I want to read about experience of setting that up, and more important, engaging people. It seems that Internet in Russia, where I leave, is gonna be much less free very soon :/
Anonymous · 2mo · No.168
@167 That effort sure looks quite a bit more polished than Althea Thanks for the link.
Anonymous · 2mo · No.169
and helium also looks like yet another project pushing their yet another cryptocurrency 🤔
Anonymous · 2mo · No.171
@169 TBH, I think native cryptocurrencies may make sense for projects like Althea and Helium. They allow network providers to be rewarded in tokens representing access to network capacity without running the risk of creating a liquidity crisis, especially in the early days when demand for the nascent network may not be all that high.
Anonymous · 2mo · No.174
@171 I don't know how an incentivised network would even work without it's own cryptocurrency. I guess you could have fiat distribu
Anonymous · 2mo · No.175
(Accidently pressed enter too soon) I suppose the project leaders could distribute fiat (or an existing crypto not tied to the network) to nodes based on performance somehow. That might be bad for privacy though as they would have to have an overview of the network. Also centralisation is just bad (what if the project goes bust? what if the project leaders start censoring connections based on personal views?).
Anonymous · 2mo · No.176
@175 An incentivized meshnet could use the native currency of whatever smart contract platform it has chosen to build on, but then there would be little incentive to be among the first to set up nodes, as one would not be compensated in any way. If a meshnet has its own currency, then it can issue that currency as compensation, essentially allowing it to borrow against the future value of the network, thus resolving the liquidity problem and helping the network bootstrap.
Anonymous · 2mo · No.220
@176
As in, users of the network would pay node operators to use their nodes?
I was thinking that the native coin could be printed to give to node ops automatically. But this way sounds better.
What do you mean by "borrow against the future value of the network"?
Anonymous · 2mo · No.228
Right. But as I said, it makes the bootstrapping problem harder.
"Borrow against the future value of the network," in the same way that startups "borrow" against future value by granting stocks and options to early employees.
Anonymous · 2mo · No.462
I know that feel bro. I am from Russia too. Censorship is rampant. It would be nice if I could make a mesh network in my university
andrew!z8MmXsU4 · 2mo · No.465
@462 I thought about it, but it would be nearly useless