Awesome work! Congrats on the ACM acceptance. Shameless plug, but I did/am doing some research on the same subject of path selection. [1]<p>People were mostly excited about the TorCoin aspect of our paper, but our path selection algorithm reduces latency in hidden services (by requiring only 3 relays instead of 6), and allows each circuit to be publicly verifiable, privately addressable.<p>[1] <a href="http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/papers/hotpets14-torpath.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/papers/hotpets14-torpath.pd...</a>