I had an idea but lack the understanding and skills to verify if its useful or not.
Could you set up the Hyperboria layer with a built in crypto coin payments system, so people that need to leach of the Hyperboria layer can pay some small amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin and this fee is distributed to the nodes that are carrying the traffic.
This might give an incentive that would get more people to sacrifice their power/electricity/bandwidth to become a node if they received a small donation in return.
> Could you set up the Hyperboria layer with a built in crypto coin payments system, so people that need to leach of the Hyperboria layer can pay some small amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin and this fee is distributed to the nodes that are carrying the traffic.
Yes, and apart from the fnf (I meet Isaac and Gordon a few weeks ago here in Spain), there is also the guifi.net project that is operating mainly in Spain. We currently have more then 22000 active nodes. The Model is the same: A parallel network with services, but also with exit nodes to the internet.
The project is currently working with the bmx6 project to create a new firmware called qmp which can be installed on any device that supports openwrt. The great thing about this mesh software is that it automatic. Once the antenna detects any other device, it will configure the connections etc automatically. It also auto detects any internet connection and announces it to the mesh. The system natively uses IPv6 for the mesh with IPv4 tunnels on top.
Could you set up the Hyperboria layer with a built in crypto coin payments system, so people that need to leach of the Hyperboria layer can pay some small amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin and this fee is distributed to the nodes that are carrying the traffic.
This might give an incentive that would get more people to sacrifice their power/electricity/bandwidth to become a node if they received a small donation in return.