[tor-talk] Bittorrent starting to move entirely within anonymous overlay nets

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:20:16PM +0200, Aymeric Vitte wrote:
> Le 17/06/2016 à 12:51, Zenaan Harkness a écrit :
> >> Even if an interesting move as you described (ie onions + onioncat) I
> >> > don't really think that it can scale to the extent required by a bt p2p
> >> > network, I don't think either that using hidden services is a good
> >> > solution to reach peers, and is it not an issue to have potentially
> >> > plenty of new nodes (peers) relaying the Tor traffic and decreasing the
> >> > efficiency of the Tor circuits due to their upload bandwidth?
> > Those are not grarpamp's point - as load increases toi the point where the
> > network has some actual "problem", this will motivate various people to do
> > those things required to actually improve the network.
> 
> That's what I am saying, move bt to anonymous, more traffic, increasing
> nodes, this will never happen with the Tor network

Why not?