Hi All,
Update from Tribler HQ on anonymous downloading. We are now growing nicely after 11 years and 2 months of software development and research. Thank you all for supporting us through the years!
Shown above are the aggregate statistics from serverw we maintain running our own Tor-based onion routing protocol. We dedicated most of them to “exit-node” mode only. The server CPU cores are maxed out 24/7 doing heavy crypto. Improvements the dev team will make in tuning performance will directly increase our exit node capacity.
( slow anonymous downloads: Crypto CPU bottleneck · Issue #1882 · Tribler/tribler · GitHub )
Another upcoming development are Tribler credits for helping others. We have been working on this with Harvard University since 2007 ( Creating a computer currency – Harvard Gazette ). Our approach differs from Bitcoin, we emphasize unbounded scalability. We now have Alpha code of credit mining, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/1842
A few students have gotten a partial implementation of buying and selling credits on a fully decentralised market for Bitcoins, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/compare/devel...mitchellolsthoorn:feature/market
Currently 16 people are working on Tribler. All of them now had their 1-4 months of training in understanding Tribler, so they are becoming productive. For instance, after 2 failed designs and attempts we should have thumbnails operational in August.
Greetings, johan.