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Bitmessage is a wonderful example of turning the scalability vs privacy dial all the way to the right.

The primitives are all due an update. Proof of Work sucks. But otherwise, all-to-all epidemic broadcast is the path to minimal message metadata leaking.



It's been more than ten years since I used Bitmessage but wasn't message flooding what caused its downfall?


Sounds like the first iteration of gnutella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella


I mean, if you really want the scalability vs privacy dial all the way to the right, i assume you would use dining cryptographer nets.

Much older than proof of work, and literally as private as theoretically possible.


Look up proof of stake


ha, no thanks. it also can't work for bitmessage, there is no coin to stake.


Hold my beer

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Imagine if you could stake private messages. If a node is proven to have cheated, all other nodes form a consensus and leak its private messages.

But nothing at stake, as is the case with most PoS.




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