This could be used with Nostr[1] to add a ton of privacy! The added privacy would even be a reason to pay for using the server.
As of now, a lot of privacy is lost when you actually look at Nostr events. There are servers that check to see if a user has paid before they execute the request too[2].
Yeah, we think private lookup could make distributed retrieval protocols like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc significantly more private. Currently, they are in some ways much worse from a privacy perspective than centralized alternatives, since they involve broadcasting information about each retrieval to a large number of peers; the ability to do private lookups could really help fix this.
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This could be used with Nostr[1] to add a ton of privacy! The added privacy would even be a reason to pay for using the server.
As of now, a lot of privacy is lost when you actually look at Nostr events. There are servers that check to see if a user has paid before they execute the request too[2].
1: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
2: https://github.com/fiatjaf/expensive-relay
Yeah, we think private lookup could make distributed retrieval protocols like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc significantly more private. Currently, they are in some ways much worse from a privacy perspective than centralized alternatives, since they involve broadcasting information about each retrieval to a large number of peers; the ability to do private lookups could really help fix this.