"a cross between TOR and bittorrent to create a distributed cache to avoid throttling" That arguably describes Freenet, which I think actually predates both To

"a cross between TOR and bittorrent to create a distributed cache to avoid throttling" That arguably describes Freenet, which I think actually predates both Tor and BitTorrent. It's languished in semi-obscurity for a variety of reasons: performance issues, a dearth of popular content, the possibility that your node caches illegal/unsavory data (this is implied by its approach to resisting censorship, which has been harshly criticized but which has no established alternative besides abandoning censorship-resistance as a goal)...