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Iterating on the tech in P2P networks (outside of web3) still feels like it’s attainable. Feels like a lot of the innovation stopped when Pirate Bay was repeat

• h0p3 4y ago
  I wouldn't say the innovation has stopped, but I will agree that the average person who uses the internet is far less likely to care about p2p tooling. It's also pretty hard to find people willing to construct exceptionally complex networks that cannot be monetized by their very nature. A proper all-in-one library or binary for NAT Traversal (state of the art will only hit 95%) and next generation high-performance secure DHTs (secure in terms of privacy, anonymity, and resistance to attack) with multi-segmented transmission of data (bonding is critical for slow tunnels, bad peering, and maximizing the value of swarms), mutable content-addressable storage, baked-in obfuscated tunneling, and revokable + intelligent multi-device logical accounts (it's necessary to have our own devices and our friends proxy for us to solve some kinds of problems) is the missing foundation. Ideally, you'd be able to have lots of p2p applications sit on top of one network orchestration tool, otherwise you'll blow the average person's resources just trying to stay alive on multiple networks. In applying the "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works" mantra, I find we've still not attempted to decentralize as much as we should. Plenty of the experts I respect disagree with me there, so take my opinion with an extra grain of salt.