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On 06/14/2014 03:09 AM, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote:
> The questions that pop in my head are:
> 
> 1) What kind of products are that? (Businesses or End-Consumer market?)

Yes and yes.

> 2) What is the intended use-case? (Usage of the Tor network?
> Contribution to the Tor network? Both?)

Privacy through Tor.

> 3) In any case, doesn't that make you face some challenges?
> (Scalability, resources for downloads, size of consensuses, possibly
> bridges cause trouble, e.g. the bridgeDB has to maintain a pool of
> millions of bridges, maybe.)

Yes, many challenges.

> 4) In the case of those things being relays, can one predict what the
> effect on network diversity will be?

With the current public tor network, implosion. We almost survived 5
million bots barely using the tor network.

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