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Comment by vngzs

2 years ago

So Tor with a blockchain, and you have to pay for it?

> Users pay a fee in NYM to send their data through the mixnet.

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dmos62  2 years ago

To be fair, Tor costs too, it's just that someone else is picking up the bill.

rendx  2 years ago

Tor is not a mixnet, since it cannot delay individual packets or messages, which is a requirement for actual "mixing". Tor is onion routing.

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