I'd like some bullet points with differences with TOR for the end-user.
All its says in the white paper is that nodes are not rewarded in TOR. that's not exactly they reason as why to rewrite the whole thing right?
Also there is TorCoin which is scammy but has the same idea.
I am just curious, not criticizing.
TOR project, neither Torcoin has no where near the same idea.
The thing about Mysterium is simple. It connects people who would like to sell their additional internet bandwidth, with the ones would want to mask their own internter traffic. There are no centralized authorites that controls this traffic. Therefore, your traffic is completely safe.
Torcoin aims to create a anon coin, thats all.
On the other hand, we all know what is wrong with TOR itself. The FBI already cracked it and it is nearly impossible to access any website without waiting so long. I myself have been enable to watch even Youtube videos. VPN is something different, you kinda keep using your internet with the nearly the same speed your router provides. And you can actually do anything with VPN active. Not just browsing. With everything you do related to internet, your IP would be masked.