Kiwi Farms

Oxen is a rebrand of Loki, which was the currency set up to support Lokinet. Lokinet was a project started in IRC by 8chan user alumni and that's why I know about it.

The goal of Lokinet is to create a Tor-style onion routing network with nodes incentivized for supporting the network. So Tor can be broken by feds by attacking all service nodes on Tor except fed compromised nodes, Lokinet would be supported by masternodes paid to support the network through regular masternode payouts.

Session <https://getsession.org/> is an example an IM service built on top of Oxen.

Things I like about Oxen:
Mandatory zero-proof knowledge (i.e. Monero)
There's a lot of coins that have optional privacy but that's bullshit. Monero does it right. The problem with Monero/Oxen style mandatory privacy is that fewer places support it due to KYC constraints. As of writing, only Bittrex and KuCoin have Oxen listed.

Masternodes (100% Proof-of-Stake over Proof-of-Work)
I strongly believe that only Bitcoin and maybe Ethereum will last long-term using proof-of-work. The market hates crypto miners and there's simply not enough GPU to go around for every shitcoin to have currency mining. Proof-of-stake is objectively a better system for smaller ecosystems.

Lokinet
Lokinet is an onion routing system like Tor. Tor is super pozzed and there's fears of it being compromised in the future. Lokinet is built from the ground up and unlike Tor incentivizes fortifying it financially through service nodes.

There's options for baking in the future. In my head, I would like for the crypto to work like this:
"We run these Oxen nodes, you can access the site over lokinet, and if you want to help support the site financially with zero commitment, you can buy OXEN for your own HODL and then bake with us on this masternode".


Basically, I've learned over the years to look at currencies which directly benefit the Kiwi Farms and support those. It worked with BAT.