Re: [Help-gnunet] gnunet cash

[Igor Wronsky]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Christian Grothoff wrote:

> > Should I wait a few hours after connecting to the network to start making
> > requests?  Or should I just jump right in and get what I want?
> Jump right in, it will pretty much always be slow either way; all that the
> accounting tries to do is make it faster for people that contribute.  In
> general, the idea of just accumulating credit to spend "later" is typically a
> bad idea, any form of money only works if people actually put it into use.

Between the lines, Steven hits neatly at the fact that we don't
have empiric data or even experience that would convincingly
show that the _implementation_ of the trust stuff in current GNUnet
a) works as it should b) benefits the behaving/sharing nodes,
and c) doesn't do 'stupid things' - unless someone is
keeping the knowledge to himself. ;)


Igor