[wraptile]

IPv4 is not going away because it's valuable (as in limited supply creates a market). HTTP 1.1 is already unusuable in modern web as you'll be instantly blocked by cloudflare and gang. HTTP2 is likely to follow in near future as replacing it will be much easier than replacing http1.1.

[re-thc]

Adoption was also slow because there were lots of legacy switches and routers that did not support it. Upgrades took a long time.

[bheadmaster]

> IPv4 is not going away because it's valuable (as in limited supply creates a market).

That's what I've been telling my bros about crypto.

[wraptile]

I'm not sure you understand. IP scarcity means they are more valuable in the web automation context. IPv6 availability will make it harder to "price" web automation -> more bots online -> more captchas and privacy invasions. That's a real challenge that is hard to solve despite your snarky comments.

[bheadmaster]

The IPv4 address scarcity means that bots cause a lot more collateral damage, because if your neighbor runs a bot from home, you'll most likely get banned too.

Yeah, there's value in convenience of being able to block misbehaving IPv4 addresses. There's also value in burning CPU cycles to produce a transaction on a blockchain.

Make of it what you will.