We would do well to remember that BitTorrent came from Mojo Nation, which attempted to tokenize distribution long before Filecoin and the like.

Ultimately, "too cheap to meter" was the problem they encountered, so they stripped out the tit-for-tat portion and Bittorrent was released.

https://elaineou.com/2017/10/14/the-transaction-costs-of-tok...