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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: speedy on July 04, 2014, 10:44:12 pm

Title: DAC for internet access sharing
Post by: speedy on July 04, 2014, 10:44:12 pm

The internet is supposedly everywhere, yet we are all still forced to access it via a small number of centralized ISP companies, with all the obvious problems that entails.

This might just be a unworkable idea but here goes:

What about a DAC that incentivizes sharing your internet connection? I would happily share mine if software was available that made it easy and worth my while.

There has been a proposed project called TorCoin to incentivize running Tor relay nodes. Maybe this could be done in a similar way.

Title: Re: DAC for internet access sharing
Post by: Troglodactyl on July 05, 2014, 03:31:07 am

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=5082

There's my progress on this idea...

I don't think it needs its own chain, I think just the payment protocol using existing chains would be more efficient.