haha, yeah, i got back to that timeline for 2023 but funding ran out and my sponsor was no kind of marketing genius, so we didn't find more funding

it's incredible how much work you have to do to simply get people who have capital to invest and a desire to invest it in a specific category of things to learn about it, they are constantly fending off bullshit, i'm sure, it's just like all network protocols...99% spam, 1% signal

as far as i can tell, tor is the most successful because it has the best balance of engineering tradeoffs, similar to how bitcoin is the winner for distributed ledgers

i've thought more about the subject recently, as regards to the way tor uses telescoping (my new term for this is "telescoping ping"), and honestly i didn't even touch the subject of distributing node information across the network, tor uses a centralised directory server for this, which is obviously undesirable, this seems like the right place to put a DHT, but there is all kinds of curly spam problems to navigatet to that destination as well