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Is it possible we already have an entrenched system in place that squashes the possibility of a decentralized internet before it can get off the ground?

Not only is no one economically motivated to share traffic towards the edge, no one will be building physical network capacity for it either.

I wonder what projected bandwidth numbers look like (if, for instance, youtube or netflix was completely distributed) - is the edge network close to being able to handling this?



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