Bitcoin is """"worth"""" a trillion dollars. It's not a free money machine, It's is a shitty payment system, not a P2P network unless you are sharing your blog over OP_RETURN.
>Meanwhile 20+ years of effort into creating P2P networks has resulted in pretty much nothing
IDK bittorrrent and IPFS just work without inventing a free money machine.
You can download linux install disks over BitTorrent.
>No source control is on P2P
With a system like Git there is no need for such a centralized system. Each user has their own copy of the tree.
>BitTorrent isn't free
Bullshit. It is free. Go on TPB, it's still up. I use it every day and it is leagues faster than any alternative.
Or to put it another way: No one, at any point, put that much money into the system.
Also, it costs our environment a lot. Soon I would join the ranks of luddites, if science and anything digital was not that much more interesting to me than plainly surviving.
Bitcoin is worth a trillion dollar. Meanwhile 20+ years of effort into creating P2P networks has resulted in pretty much nothing. No Linux distributions are hosted on P2P. No source control is on P2P. No messaging. Nothing of significance. Just a few tech demos here and there.
Proper incentives can make all the difference and given the utter failure of getting any non-incentivised P2P off the ground in the last two decades, I think it's safe to say, it will be necessary. I don't see much point in repeating what hasn't worked in the past.
> and they may host others' data for free like in BitTorrent
BitTorrent isn't free. All the fancy piracy sites have share ratios. The public stuff more often than not has 0 seeders, lots of leechers and is just a lot of dead torrents in general. You are better off just using a centralized share hoster. Even your average Linux distribution agrees. BitTorrent might still be offered for ISO downloads, but it's hardly ever the default anymore, it's all back to plain old HTTPS.