On Sun, 21 May 2017 01:45:20 -0400 Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote:
> Now I think you're describing Freenet. How doth Freenet suck, let me > count the ways... actually freenet seems like the best project of its kind. It's not garbage produced by the pentagon, and it tries to be really decentralized. > massive computational overhead was the main thing, I never experienced that, although it would be nice if they didn't use java. > last time I tried it which was ages ago. It really needed its own > dedicated box to "just work." nonsense. > But it does distribute files, increase > the availability of more popular ones (via increased redundancy of > storage), and is censorship resistant due to distributed storage of > data which itself is encrypted and anonymized. yes, the concept is pretty 'cypherpunk'. > > I think a project that aims to improve on the implementation of the > basic ideas in Freenet could be a big winner. > > :o) > > > > > > Users actual use of the network would > > be through different apps... be it submitting > > infohashes, or compute jobs, etc. > > > > Does eliminating all the reward tracking overhead > > provide substantial resources back to support > > free use. > > > > ie: Most people and their computer resources sit idle, > > probably more than enough to provide back whatever > > multimedia they want to consume. > > If true, all balances out, no need to bother track accounting > > with "pay to play" style system? > > > > I like "pay to play" as it offers at least some > > firm guarantee to the consumer offeror. > > > > But an accounting free system is more fun as in free beer :) > > > > Hybrids might work too. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data) > > > > 100M users donating 10GiB slack space is about 0.93 EiB > > of non redundant storage, excluding overhead. > > > > Example, at 4x redundancy, that probably easily covers > > lossless versions of all movies (at least 1080p) > > and all audio (FLAC), all wikipedia, all OS and apps. > > > > Approaching mini-NSA scale... not a bad start. > > >