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Sounds dangerous
Yeah, I'm not onboard... I'd rather vet a single company (vpn provider) and keep track of their goings-on rather than trust that a system with many actors are trustworthy with no incentive to be. A VPN provider that claims to not track logs... but gets found out that it does.... dies. There's a direct incentive here.
This system? There's no way that the money you pay for this SPN service is making it to all the exit/traversal nodes. There's nothing that would stop any given node from being malicious... forget just basic vetting of each node would be a massive cost alone. We can trust encryption... but we already do that with https and other protocol level stuff too. At that point I might as well just trust my ISP if I have to infer trust into each node like this.
I get tor... I get it's uses... I don't get how this is adding all that much more to the topic from a security perspective if it's only "tor-like" (not using tor nodes). Tor still has it's own issues as well.