I'll have to read up on that.

But to be honest, the web3 / blockchain vibes are an instant turn off.

(Let's see how the votes turn out for this comment. ;) )

Note: If you _need_ a blockchain in your VPN, I would say https://nym.com/ is the most trustworthy of them out there at the moment.

swarm is made of two, relatively independent components:

1) the storage/comm layer (has not much to do with web3/blockchain stuff)

2) the incentive layer to encourage cooperation/participation, and to make the various attacks expensive.

without a functional 2) i'm yet to be convinced that it's possible to create a truly distributed censorship resistant 1).

Blockchain- the tech still waiting for its use case :)

Evading government capital controls and taxation has proven to be a pretty solid use case, even if frowned upon by some.

And buying drugs. I suppose you could count that as a capital control.

USD and fiat still reigns #1 for that in the world.

> Note: If you _need_ a blockchain in your VPN, I would say nym.com is the most trustworthy of them out there at the moment.

There's a wholespace of what's known as "dVPNs". I like the concept behind saurik et al's https://orchid.com/vpn; it was specifically marketed as a Tor replacement (with built-in micropayments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576457