I don’t speak a lick of German but I still understood this thanks to the power or meme formats

This +1 because just an upvote didn’t feel strong enough

Irssi - used it first in college and never looked for anything else

It doesn’t run on the OG Tor network itself as I understand it - people run their own specific Session Nodes that act as the “tor-like” backbone.

The crypto part is because to set up your own node, you proof of stake a bunch of their coin, and if your node is found to be unreliable or blatantly malicious your stake is locked (or even forefitted? Not sure about that part)