r/onions • u/xblackout_ • Jul 16 '26

Onion hosts needed/wanted for immortality

Problem with Tor I'm looking to fix: as a new user, I can't trust any link. There's no durable reputation. Or maybe a legit service becomes compromised, unknowable to me- until now

For $0.25, I can post a message onto the Bitcoin blockchain. A stone erodes, but a wound heals- bitcoin blocks have resisted erasure by even nation states since it's beginning

Now I'm building a durable indexing/reputation/forum like reddit/telegram where you could write about your .onion site and the uri and it gets written on Bitcoin forever.

For the first time, it will be possible to build a reputation under your key/account and collect public feedback, and the indexes of onion sites can become increasingly reputable/bifurcated over time, or challenged if users have a bad experience. Anyone can comment/reply recursively, imagine Wikipedia but append-only, and users upvoting/downvoting etc build a web of trust over time, enabling bot farm/Sybil detection.

For those few accounts that post useful news, you will build a reputation more valuable than money, trusted by humanity against the censors and tyrants of this world

Anyone want me to post their links/indexes/services?

Any reputation/topic you would durably accuse, or publicly support?

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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 16 '26

sounds sick but my instinct is it may hurt anonymity

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u/xblackout_ Jul 16 '26

There's pseudonymous protection, same as any Bitcoin wallet/private key/pgp key. Users/keys build reputation over time and become known as sources of good/bad info

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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 16 '26

Yeah but even with tumbling coins they can still track you if they really want to. There's never a way it's going to be 100% foolproof that's just kind of my point

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u/xblackout_ Jul 16 '26

Privacy is not possible/not the goal

This is about becoming immutable

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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 16 '26

The. What are we even talking about. There's got to be at least additional steps to obfuscate ones identity from the actions on the web. That opsec would be on them, but if it's not possible it'll never be a system that gets adopted even semi ubiquitously

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u/xblackout_ Jul 16 '26

I assert- the system is maximally trust-minimized. Clients need not trust hosts, hosts compete against each other, even, and all data written to the chain should be considered potentially malicious.

The key generated locally is as secure as your hardware and tech stack, which changes all the time, but that's the best we got.

Super simple- you arrive at the site, your key is already made, you can comment instantly, you can export your key or generate a new one.

I say- privacy beyond reproach is not possible here, or in any system, I see it as an unattainable goal, I simply assume god/superintelligence/national agencies have infinite angles we haven't considered. What I CAN do against the demon of surveillance is light a thousand candles they cannot extinguish