Most popular dark hashes

[xoriole]

Currently, in Tribler, we already support anonymous seeding and downloading but we don't have any way to find out the actual popular content. In our anonymity network, similar to TOR, we have introduction points which keep the information about the dark infohashes. We can exploit this data to figure out the popular content on the Tribler decentralized darknet. With proper design, we can do effective accidental overlapping of the dark infohashes to circulate the content in the network.

One of the key challenges is to still maintain the unlinkability of the hashes and not compromise the privacy & anonymity of the user in the existing network. A bot doing the download or actual Tribler user should basically be probabilistically indistinguishable.

Having an actually working Credit mining will be dependent on this work. Currently, credit mining is not profitable and users are losing tokens on hidden seeding.

[xoriole]

There is no recent work done on credit mining, nor this issue, and does not seem to be on the current priority list. Therefore, I'm unassigning myself from this ticket.