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.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.[1] https://ipfs.io/[2] http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/swarm/