I honestly don't understand the necessity or want for something like this. I get that people want their community detached from corporate interest, and that they don't want censorship involved with their communications and ideas... but as the article passingly mentions, the technology is coming out of groups that have a reasonable monetary incentive to push it.

I for one am hesitant to rely on a 'reddit p2p network' for which I have to seed with bitcoins.

Are there any estimates and just how much that cost/"incentive" per user is?

> Furthermore, when a user upvotes content, that sends a small amount of bitcoin to the author of that content, thus incentivizing the production of good content

How do you deincentivize folks from gaming that? Would we potentially run into a situation where new forms of online publishing are going to arise, where instead of being funded by Google Ads they are now funded directly by users liking their content? Will curators of cat pictures become overnight millionaires?