[2018-03-22] Naval, ICO VCs Fund Censorship-Free Blockchain Relay BloXroute

There's one part of bitcoin that isn't censorship resistant - its relay network.

At least that's according to the team at BloXroute Labs, which just brought its network for relaying information between blockchain nodes out of stealth with an impressive group of investors including AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, Metastable, 1Confirmation and Flybridge Capital. Through these investors, the company raised $1.6 million.

But the new network is more ambitious than the capital suggests. Called BloXroute, the project aims to make relay networks censorship-resistant against any number of powers by blinding the system from knowing how nodes connect with each other. And that, they say, is an improvement on the current infrastructure, largely built over the years by volunteers.

To understand this, it helps to know where relay networks originated, coming about as "mining pools," or networks of miners seeking to share profit started to form.

https://www.coindesk.com/naval-metastable-bloxroute-blockchain-funding/

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