A lot of valid criticism (the name, lack of specs, poor development support). Still I want to give this one the benefit of a doubt! It's from the Tribler folk[1], who have long long been doing by-far the most interesting & practical P2P work on the planet for well over a decade, notably around Bittorrent extensions on everything from fairness, to high durability, to search (by far some of the best/first to really get a win here in Bittorrent space), video on demand, & live-streaming (again a massive early pioneer that very much succeeded, albeit with low adoption). Recently some of their (longstanding) work on trying to add better economic/game-theory incentives in bitctorrent (far beyond simple private trackers with ratio limits) was on HN too[2][3].

I'd be cautious about disregarding these IPv8 efforts. As difficult as it is to wander into a single-language semi-documented thing that calls itself an Internet Protocol. I believe the future is exciting, and so should you, and sometimes that comes from humble (and hard to decypher) beginnings.

I ran into IPv8 about a month ago, but had to jog my memory. There is very much some seeming overlap with other p2p overlay networking, like I2P, EdgeVPN, a more general purpose WireGuard. I too am curious about differentiation / comparison.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/tribler

[2] https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#tribler-an-attack-re...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26206105