At 08:39 AM 2/14/2014, Robert Hettinga wrote:
On Feb 14, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Martin Becze <mjbecze@gmail.com> wrote:
Decentralized hosting/computing would be nice and solve these issues. Need bearer cash for that. :-)
Not really - Bitcoin's sort of close enough to bearer cash for paying for hosting, but the scenario we've been looking at was - Hosting accepts bitcoins (or bearer cache or whatever.) - Narcs harass hosting provider in lieu of actual operator - Hosting provider rolls over, lets narcs bug the system and/or hosting provider's billing system - Bugged system hands the operator a bugged PDF along with the bill, or some similar trap Even a hosting provider who accepts digital bearer cash and gets paid in advance is going to do billing. I'm a bit skeptical about how you do distributed hosting adequately here, though perhaps Tahoe with enough users would work. Obfuscating the location of the hosting is easier, but somewhat-distributed hosting is going to just mean that there are a bunch of hosting providers, each of which accepts some kind of bearer payment and has some level of willingness to narc on users. Maybe 90% of the providers won't narc on their users, but that means you need to be safe against the other 10%.