I'd love to see IPFS take off
https://ipfs.io
As great as IPFS is, it won’t help if the price for general-purpose internet skyrockets. Access to YouTube, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter will continue to have competitive prices, but the rates for out-of-band networking like IPFS and VPNs may skyrocket without the average consumer even noticing.
I think tools like IPFS will always need something like host names. Content-addressability helps you access the data once you have the address, but how can you know the latest ID of the thing you are looking for? In the IPFS world, you’d use IPNS (interplanetary name service) for this, but I’m not sure how it actually works in a distributed fashion.
The only solution to this is to organize and fight for NN in legislation at this point. All of these alternative internet systems are a complete waste of time until someone tells me how they're going to get around traffic shaping at the backbone level. There's not going to be a continent-wide wireless mesh network either.
I know regulations can be anathema to many HN readers, but if there was ever a justification for one, it's the 2015 Open Internet Order.
this is a file sharing p2p based on artificial incentives that is extremely inefficient and runs on top of an assumed network.
it is actually akin to removing net neutrality from internet caches! "want you content cached, pay with this cryptocoin"