#internet as an adversarial environment // #tech #privacy #crypto

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Well, I think in a world without violence and repression, we wouldn't have such a large problem because we could use the open internet. The internet was originally created as an open academic system for spreading knowledge. But now that we are in an adversarial environment, I do think it might be an eternal struggle against powerful centralized hierarchical authorities, we're going to have to always think how could the internet work in these situations. So the internet should be decentralized. TCP/IP and UDP can work in decentralized manner, but the dependent on the domain name system is a critical risk.

People have been trying to decentralize domain systems since the days of Namecoin. Still hasn't been successful. We need to successfully get off the domain name system and build hardware, open-source hardware. Raspberry Pis are a step in this direction, but we need to get much more powerful so that the internet can survive even the collapse of centralized large servers and large gateways. So things can be locally hosted and replicate and scale without a centralized point.

And of course, I mean I am interested in Nym and Mixnets and all of these types of technology should run over anonymous networks such as Mixnets. And I think this will empower, in combination with privacy-enhanced cryptocurrency such as Zcash uh and Monero, and whatever else new stuff is coming out, will really empower people uh to transact privately, speak freely, and self-organize confidently.