Cypherpunks, pay per use remailers, and the good ol' , days

[Jim Choate]

On 14 Aug 2001, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:

> An alternative is to pay the first remailer for the whole chain, and then
> to have that remailer pay the second remailer, the second remailer pay
> the third remailer, and so on.  This way the follow-on remailers don't
> know who the original sender of the message was.  The remailers can also
> batch up their payments when they are sending a bunch of messages to other
> remailers, perhaps even just pay the net clearing amount on a daily basis.
> 
> Some discussion of this idea as a mechanism for anonymous payments is
> in the archives at
> http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.2000.02.28-2000.03.05/msg00302.html
> and follow-ups.

What a circle jerk process...this sort of approach will completely swamp
the operator in contractual obligations through proxies (these supposed
blinding mix operators)....only a lawyer could love it.


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