Why I wrote LLARP
Recently I happened across a bitcoin talk thread while peeking at my blog's http access log at a time when I should've been doing work instead.
I'll probably take this chance to make it very clear what llarp/lokinet is and is not and why it even exists in the first place.
I can say that, in my opinion, llarp/lokinet is attempting to be a protocol to replace i2p
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I2P has a mountain of technical debt in their protocols that have been taking several (5+) years now to rectify. It is in fact easier to rewrite the whole thing than to rebase the protocol atop sanity. I am not the first person to suggest this by any means, nor the first to attempting it. The first attempt I have seen was the shadow protocol from 2013. For whatever reason it died off, I personally suspect it was because of …