• 2024: This document is now outdated, but still good source of our methodology, thinking, and approach
• Problem Description
• Design Goals
• Ecosystem Overview
• Accounting Mechanism
• First iteration: TrustChain
• Second iteration: Basic Bandwidth Accounting
• Payouts in Onion-routing Circuits
• Reputation Mechanism
• Allocation Mechanism
• Market Mechanism
• Security Analysis
• Sybil Attack
• Whitewashing Attack
• Linkability through Accounting
• Self-reporting of Balances
• Unlimited transaction spam
• Roadmap
• Phase I: Integration of the BAMI accounting mechanism in Tribler
• Phase II: Integration of a Sybil-resistant, efficient reputation mechanism in Tribler
• Phase III: Experimental analysis in a controlled environment (e.g., DAS5)
• Scientific Challenges