Is Mysterium Blockchain-based VPN as good as its claimed to be?

[goldstein-otg]

@vinodkumar why did you create a copy of @0brand first post in a new Thread ?

Since i didn’t see this post back then and it was posted again i’ll throw in my 2 satoshis.

@0brand

Mysterium is based on the Etheruem blockchain so does that imply that its just as secure or even more secure than other vpn solutions like Openvpn.

It’s less secure, Ethereum is a terrible Project with many MANY Problems.
It can be easily “DDOS’ed” (look what happened with Cryptokitties and imagine a serious attacker…)[1], it’s higly centralized (the DAO fork)[2], running a Node is getting more and more difficult because of the Blockchain size[3], Dapps are just Bugfests written by incompetent People (Parity’s wallets for example)[4][5]… and so on …

@0brand

If Mysterium is in fact a secure VPN solution can it be chained with Tor? I know the Etherium client uses a listner ( TCP ) port and a discovery ( UDP ) port so would this mean users would have to tunnel Mysterium through Tor if they wanted to chain the two of them together?

I don’t think this is a good idea, since Mysterium is just Vaporware

@0brand

The developers claim Mysterium is an anonymity network thats comparable to or even better than Tor in some ways like higher network bandwidth and more financial incentive to be a node opperator which in turn will lead to more node opperators . (see the Mysterium Whitepaper competitive Analysis Graph ) I’m having a hard time believing that.

This “Developer” is a cash hungry moron, the only reason he is saying this is to sell his useless Token.He probably sold all of his Token, by the looks of it [6] Don’t trust, verify and there is nothing to verify… a anonymity project based on a selected userbase (paying users) is just Stupid and does not give any kind of anonymity, you’re better off using a normal VPN if you like fixed Nodes.

@0brand

a) Tor is free to use whereas users pay to use the Mysterium network ( Winner Tor ).

Tor is designed that way so spooks can hide behind other Peoples traffic and yes it superior to Mysteriums “design”

@0brand

b) If you are paying for the Mysterium network with tokens that leaves some sort of “paper trail” that would take away from user pseudonymity. ( Winner Tor ).

Correct, besides the paper trail, Ethereum is an unusable Mess without any real use case, except Pump and Dump Shitcoin/Token distribution.

@0brand

c) I’m far from being an expert but I thought the Ethereum blockchain was designed to be a secure p2p network not a anonymity network, whereas Tor was designed from the beginning to be an anonymous network. ( Winner Tor )

Wrong, Ethereum was design to make it’s creators rich and those who invested in the ICO, Vitalik is a known scammer (look at his “quantum computer” project before Ethereum)[7]

Mysterium and all the other “Blockchain” Projects that came after Bitcoin are just copy cats that try to grab some of that sweet sweet Blockchain Hype [8]… they will be gone in a couple of years when the Pump&Dump ends…

Everything besides Money doesn’t need a Blockchain, there is no benefit in adding a Blockchain to these Projects.

Blockchain this Blockchain that, your Project is fucking useless crap!

Links:
[1]https://www.coindesk.com/loveable-digital-kittens-clogging-ethereums-blockchain/
[2]https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/the-dao-the-hack-the-soft-fork-and-the-hard-fork/
[3]The Ethereum-blockchain size has exceeded 1TB, and yes, it’s an issue | HackerNoon
[4]Yes, this kid really just deleted $300 MILLION by messing around with Ethereum’s smart contracts. | HackerNoon
[5]anyone can kill your contract · Issue #6995 · openethereum/parity-ethereum · GitHub
[6]Mysterium price today, MYST to USD live price, marketcap and chart | CoinMarketCap
[7]Gregory Maxwell: "Vitalik Buterin Ran A Quantum Computer Scam"
[8]https://medium.com/bitfwd/how-to-do-an-ico-on-ethereum-in-less-than-20-minutes-a0062219374