{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-05-08\n📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell \u003cgmaxwell at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e The tor network works based on a centralized (well, in theory,\n\u003e federated) trusted directory service. (More info in\n\u003e https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=dir-spec.txt).\n\nThanks!\n\n\u003e Much of data that is not related to relay related is just generated by\n\u003e probes, e.g. semi-trusted bandwidth authorities that measure node\n\u003e performance back to the directory authorities.\n\nRight, so there is more involved than just adding having nodes provide\nmeasuring points, a third-party is also performing tests on the nodes.\n\nIn a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to\nfind good and stable nodes, although more extensive.\n\nWladimir"}