Saturday, December 15, 2012

[qyipdwkn] Influencing Freenet caching with Bitcoin or Hashcash

Consider attempting to influence which documents get cached by nodes within a Freenet network with a self-reported value of the content.  An insertion request is tagged with metadata which if a node trusts, translates to a weight in its internal datastore influencing how persistently the item will stay in its data store.

Hashcash or something better as a proof of work.  Or proof of payment.

Or Bitcoin bribe, though I have no idea how this could work.

These would affect measuring document popularity.

One goal is to avoid spam in the network.

The alternative is to constantly reinsert.

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