> Hashes are universal and unambiguous. There should be a way to retrieve a file given its hash. I'm not sure you've thought through the complexity of what you

> Hashes are universal and unambiguous. There should be a way to retrieve a file given its hash. I'm not sure you've thought through the complexity of what you're asking for. Hashes require (a) a hash function everyone agrees to, (b) a way to resolve them to an IP address. Unless you synchronized all global hashes across the Internet on everyone's computer (the git hashed project model -- which we know doesn't scale beyond a certain point unless you bucket things into independent hashes you care about), you'd basically have to do something like Hash://ip_address/bucket/hash or hash://bucket/hash if you want to give a monopoly to one IP address that manages giant hash in the sky Which is back to URLs and HTTP, and no different from say Amazon S3