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David,
You didn't mention Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation and I was fortunate to work there with Bram Cohen (BitTorrent) and "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn (MNET, Tahoe LAFS and ZCash). I think we were one of first p2p attempts (circa 2001) to include our own currency, based on resources, to reward those offering resources (e.g., storage and bandwidth) and required those consuming resources to pay. Jim and I attributed Mojo's failure to a number of circumstances, including:
- Our inability to raise capital due to Napster's poisoning the VCs
- The immaturity of the software tools available at the time
- Our too early focus on persistence
- Connection limitations at the time left the client's storage-bandwidth ratio unfavorably high for building an infrastructure with reasonable access times
- Creeping feature elegance
- and "we were far too concerned with security and anonymity" for rollout
Today most or all of these limitations are no longer significant.
I generally agree with your assessment of cost competition between centralized and p2p and think today, like Satochi's vision for Bitcoin, p2p file sharing should (like Freenet) focus on censorship resistance.
Steve Schear
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Jun 26, 2018, 2:31:42 PM
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