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RE: Is the Mysterium (decentralised VPN) token worth buying during this week's ICO?
I wonder if the distributing of the VPN service across nodes would make it harder to detect that you are using a VPN -- something that is good for people like myself not in the US trying to use a USA-based subscription service, like Netflix USA, or Amazon Video USA. They have gotten more sophisticated at detecting VPNs, even ones that you pay for to get better service.
You are right about questioning the speed issue, but I imagine they would plan for that, somehow distributing your connection across several connections, so that like when you load a file via a torrent network, you get incredible speeds sometimes and huge files travel really fast.
I like the idea behind it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I think they have to follow regulations - so provide open access to VPN database to authorities - so probably it will not be harder to detect you are using a VPN for governamental istitutions. By private neither - because blockchain technology let you discover the IP of the nodes - so I could virtually know the node of your VPN - check the blockchain and find if there's any match..
Good points...
Good points, I don't think that it will distribute the load like torrents do to increase speed. I think it will act more like TOR to sequentially tunnel? I may be wrong. It's an interesting concept, but as I said before I dont know if it's enough for me and the masses to switch from out paid VPN services that are easy to use....
Also I remain heavily sceptical of their choice to have an ICO... If the goal is to keep costs down, then what incentives are there for token holders and how do the tokens gain value?