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__MatrixMan__ • today at 1:22 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Yes. It's content addressed instead of server addressed. We can serve content to each other from our browser caches. The original server doesn't even have to stay up, just as long as there's sufficient saturation among the clients. The internet also doesn't have to stay up so long as somebody on your local mesh has what you need.

We just gotta rethink the application layer to make it easier to reference by hash instead of by name, and a few other tweaks.


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pvab3 • today at 2:34 AM

So like peer to peer? What incentive is there to keep seeding?

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