Feels like a lot of the innovation stopped when Pirate Bay was repeatedly targeted, but there’s still lots possible in that space (outside of torrenting).
Feels like a lot of the innovation stopped when Pirate Bay was repeatedly targeted, but there’s still lots possible in that space (outside of torrenting).
A proper all-in-one library or binary for NAT Traversal (state of the art will only hit 95%) and next generation high-performance secure DHTs (secure in terms of privacy, anonymity, and resistance to attack) with multi-segmented transmission of data (bonding is critical for slow tunnels, bad peering, and maximizing the value of swarms), mutable content-addressable storage, baked-in obfuscated tunneling, and revokable + intelligent multi-device logical accounts (it's necessary to have our own devices and our friends proxy for us to solve some kinds of problems) is the missing foundation. Ideally, you'd be able to have lots of p2p applications sit on top of one network orchestration tool, otherwise you'll blow the average person's resources just trying to stay alive on multiple networks.
In applying the "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works" mantra, I find we've still not attempted to decentralize as much as we should. Plenty of the experts I respect disagree with me there, so take my opinion with an extra grain of salt.