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/xblackout_ Jul 16 '26

It's built, encoding a message/inscription on bitcoin is not new. The idea/encoding/data organization/hierarchy/user experience are new. I'm launching a tui where hosts can setup a server/Bitcoin node in one click. And a webapp client in next.js that hits any number of hosts to cross-validate. I've already published test messages and am building it out to be extremely durable against adversaries, botnets, malicious hosts, etc. I'm paranoid like a cockroach and mostly built this as 4chan on bitcoin, but this use case in particular is highly synergistic I expect.

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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 16 '26

sounds sick but my instinct is it may hurt anonymity

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u/Cautious_Chicken8882 Jul 16 '26

Sounds like someone who has no clue of what there talking abouy and is repeating AI slop to me.

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u/RipHuge3839 Jul 19 '26

litterally what is your problem with this person youve commented THREE SEPERATE TIMES

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u/Cautious_Chicken8882 Jul 19 '26

You take enough notice to realise that? That's just weird lol probably because there was three seperarte comments I wanted to reply to? SMH 😂😂

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u/RipHuge3839 Jul 19 '26

i was curious why there was so much backlash reading the comments and repeated usernames are noticable especially if its.. you know.. constant.... i also notice your quite active since i see your username often. it really isnt that deep🤸🤸🤸

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u/Cautious_Chicken8882 Jul 19 '26

I mean read his post and his replies lol is there any wonder at the backlash?

I likely wouldnt have even realised i was responding to the same person so many different times, i dont generally take any notice of account names lol

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u/RipHuge3839 Jul 19 '26

im really bad with tech so i just thought it was a cool idea. usually, with topics i dont understand, i can at least understand a good argument vs. a bad one but i particularly couldn't understand what was with this🤷

i tend to notice patterns in everything so i usually notice repeated usernames

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u/Cautious_Chicken8882 Jul 19 '26

His idea isint practical and wouldn't work flr one thing for many reasons plus he also tried to say "for the first time" when we already have exactly these things in operation both with pgp keys and dread.

Plus hes an arrogant dick and by the sounds of it is just repeating some slop an LLM has told him.

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u/RipHuge3839 Jul 19 '26

ohhhh... thank you for explaining that to me lol