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Fund/initiate the development of a metadata privacy conserving HOPR desktop client (mobile APP to follow later)
+++ IDEA +++
- Initiate the development of a metadata privacy conserving HOPR desktop client
- The user experience should be ‘plug&play’, comparable to what people are familiar with from VPN clients
- It should be easily usable for crypto- as well as non-crypto-oriented users
- A mobile app should follow later
- The basic concept is sketched below
+++ ECONOMIC ASPECTS +++
- During the cover traffic program, it might/should be considered to allow for free usage
- Node runners are paid in any case and a free initial phase will help bootstrapping usage in general
- Later on (after the cover traffic phase), a reasonable fee model has to be implemented
- Fees should be payable in HOPR tokens for crypto users as well as in FIAT (if legally possible) for non-crypto users
- Non-crypto users would have to pay a very small premium on the market price, which would accrue fees for the DAO
+++ NON-TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES +++
- As outlined in the DAO v0.3 medium post, even non-tech people of the HOPR team have problems to understand the usecases of HOPR
- Thus, sophisticated marketing campaigns (based on hands-on examples or else) are necessary to communicate the benefits of using HOPR to crypto- and above all to non-crypto-oriented people
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