>No P2P storage networks have succeeded? What about torrents? You have to look at the specific context his essay is about. Torrents are popular for data that

>No P2P storage networks have succeeded? What about torrents? You have to look at the specific context his essay is about. Torrents are popular for data that many participants desire such as "StarWars_1080p.mp4" and "LadyGaga_album.mp3". Torrents do not work for a 500GB encrypted backup of "JohnDoe_personal_vacation_photos_20180621.zip". There's no financial incentive for others to download and store it so the number of seeeds/peers will be 0. His essay is not about a p2p version of Netflix or Spotify (e.g. bittorrent or Napster). He's talking about a p2p version of "cloud storage" such as BackBlaze/AmazonS3/DropBox for storing data that may only be important to that user. That's why he's dissecting Filecoin and its economics.