西蒂姆(Citum)作為一個免費的、開源代碼的、完全去中心化的、無需准入許可的區塊鏈系統 的好處是 抗审查。沒人可被阻止在西蒂姆(Citum)上架設節點。節點的運營商，例如OTS即時聊天工具提供商（IMSP），可以向通過其西蒂姆(Citum)節點訪問的用戶宣傳自己的資料（例如，商業廣告內容）。發件人可以自由選擇IMSP的服務節點去中繼信息給預期收件人。任何兩個用戶（例如Alice和Bob）都可以隨時通過任何西蒂姆(Citum)的IMSP進行安全和可推諉的通訊而無需徵詢任何其他人的許可。但當然，任何一個西蒂姆(Citum)服務節點都有權拒絕服務或拒絕中繼涉嫌濫用服務的節點。完全取決於每個參與者的自由自決。無論從哪個網絡層面查看西蒂姆(Citum)的數據，所有數據看起來都是雷同的。沒有第三者（尤其是機器智能）可以確認數據是否被偽造或篡改了，因為每個人都可以偽造和篡改其他人的數據。簡而言之，除非另有明確證據說明，否則 所有數據均假定為未知來源（被偽造了）且不可信（被篡改過）。
The main benefit of Citium being a free, open-source, fully decentralized, permissionless blockchain is censorship-resistance. No one can be banned from running nodes. Operators of nodes (e.g. OTS Instant Messenger System Provider (IMSP)) may advertise their own material (e.g. commercial content) to the users who access Citium through their nodes. A sender is free to choose which IMSP’s service node to help relay his/her message to the intended recipient. Any two users (e.g. Alice & Bob) who decide to communicate securely and deniably may hop on any service nodes of Citium at any time without the need to ask for anyone else’s permission. But of course, service nodes are entitled not to serve or not to relay from questionably abusive nodes. It all depends on the self-determination of each participant. No matter from which network communication layer that one looks at Citium, all data look similar. No third party, especially machine intelligence, can tell if data has been forged or tampered with because everyone can forge or tamper with everyone else’s data. In principle, all data are assumed unknown origin (forged) and untrustworthy (tampered) until proven otherwise.
授權性 | Authorization ✓
西蒂姆(Citum)採取了 全網P2P關係模型，所以並沒更高或更低的服務權限之別。每個節點都有同等的權利和義務。所以，訊息安全漏洞，例如是 橫向權限提升 和 縱向權限提升，在西蒂姆(Citum)中都不可能存在。
Since Citium adopts a network-wide peer-to-peer (P2P) relationship model, there is no higher or lower privilege to access service. Every node is equal in rights and responsibilities. Thus, infosec exploits, such as horizontal privilege escalation and vertical privilege escalation, are impossible to exist in Citium.
從西蒂姆(Citum)世界觀： 為了打消惡意方窺探數據或抓住數據為把柄的念頭，西蒂姆(Citum)認為最佳的保安辦法就是公開地允許任何人都可以參與偽造和篡改數據，那麼便沒有任何一方能夠分辨數據真偽和是否有被偽造或篡改過的可能。
Citium’s Worldview: In order to discourage malicious parties from snooping data or holding data as evidence against others, Citium believes that the best security practice is to openly permit everyone to forge and tamper with data so that no party can possibly differentiate genuine from forged or tampered data.