Who Pays for the Decentralized Web?
The most expensive part for any "decentralized web" is going to be data storage, so the question basically boils down to "How can a person in a P2P system incentivize other people to host their files for them?" Bittorrent sidesteps this question by focusing only on very popular files and enabling hosting by default in most clients.<p>So far, no established solution exists for doing this. The most promising projects working on this problem that I know of are IPFS[1] and Ethereum Swarm[2] but both are still struggling with the low level protocol that makes sure person A gets paid for hosting files from person B.<p>[1] <a href="https://ipfs.io/" rel="nofollow">https://ipfs.io/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/swarm/" rel="nofollow">http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/swarm/</a>