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You've just hit my homepage on I2P. My name is Pluto the Planet and yes, I know that status was, in my opinion wrongfully, taken away from Pluto. Nevertheless, I hope you find this website useful, it is not updated on a regular basis, but when I feel like having too much time I might add some more content.

So before anyone asks, lets get to the bottom of this site's name. I chose it because this little symbol in the upper right corner represents a typical situation in everybody's life (not just that of a geek): you have to make a choice, because one way or the other you cannot have both options at the same time.
The mathematical description for this everyday problem is the boolean XOR operator and it is quite simple: Y = A XOR B means, Y is 1 (=true) if either A or B equals 1 (=is true), but not both at the same time. The name XOR is short for "exclusive OR".

In		Out
A	B	Y
0	0	0
0	1	1
1	0	1
1	1	0

You will find this little sucker everywhere. You are experiencing one example right now: you can't have both anonymity and speed. Because of the way I2P works to ensure your anonymity, the network is much slower than the regular internet. Or you can't have two girlfriends/boyfriends, because if one finds out about the other, you are likely single again ;-). Long story short, you can't have everything, there are compromises to be made, which ones is up to you.