• Haakon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I can’t help but being sceptical that this is based on a cryptocurrency. There are some good ideas in nym, but I’ll stick with Tor for now.

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      1 year ago

      I have been observing Nym since its inception, I personally feel they are doing a good work and they have very good intentions. They need -unsurprisingly- more time.

      As for the cryptocurrency, I personally feel it’s a good way for developers to monetize and organize payment structures in a decentralized way. The best intentions to establish a decentralized system are worth nothing in the end if you depend on a centralized payment processor such as a bank or big tech. Unfortunately they haven’t yet released a paper to dig a bit deeper, but I am very much looking forward to it.

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    1 year ago

    For context -

    “Nym provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.”

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      Yes, we should also mention that it’s still in early stage and experimental to some degree. I am just trying the Android app and it doesn’t appear to work as intended. First I could see my real IP, and after I shut it down it crashes on start.

      All good things take time …

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      1 year ago

      It encrypts and routes your entire internet traffic (email, messenger, …) through a multi-layered network which they call “mixnet”. That makes your communications private and hides your metadata (your IP address, who you talk to, when and where, etc.).

      See more at https://nymtech.net