I2P traffic has grown significantly over the last year

The graph shows that in January-April 2013 the number of I2P users remained approximately at the same level, but a noticeable increase began in late April and in May. Another jump in popularity occurred in September 2013. If it were not for the October recession, it would be possible to speak of more than a twofold increase in the number of users over the past year: the daily audience grew from 15 thousand to 35 thousand.

Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network that is somewhat similar to Tor. Here, too, the principle of multilayered traffic encryption is applied, as in Tor's “onion” routing, although with some differences. All traffic is transmitted via encrypted channels between the users themselves. Unlike Tor, the I2P peer-to-peer network structure encourages torrent downloads.

The increase in the number of users is attributed by experts to the increased censorship on the Russian Internet. Now the Russian Federation is the most active user of the I2P network by the number of nodes. At least when it is night in the USA.
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Of course, the hype around the NSA's interception of Internet users through the PRISM program and other programs, declassified thanks to Edward Snowden, also played a significant role.

In addition to introducing censorship in Russia, I2P project manager Lars Schimmer (Lars Schimmer) calls the release of the official I2P application for Android another reason for growth, the earliest versions of which appeared on the forums .