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The problem is that there are way fewer than 4 billion people who actually have anything worth connecting to their node for. 99% of internet users are strictly
by wyager 3y ago
The problem is that there are way fewer than 4 billion people who actually have anything worth connecting to their node for. 99% of internet users are strictly consumers, and a protocol change won't do anything about that. For them, there's little difference.
- themoonisachees 3y agoThis is patently false. They don't host services, sure, but the current landscape has all but shaped application design into assuming at least one party will be behind a NAT, which heavily centralizes traffic because it becomes impossible to make truly decentralized apps. Take a small look at the TURN and STUN, things that would have no business existing if all nodes could have an address. There are very valid reasons to want to send traffic to a node so called "out of the blue", and suggesting otherwise suggests you have never looked deeper than HTTP.
- blueflow 3y agoVideo conferencing and online games. A pretty big market.