[brucethemoose2]

One potential issue is that word "blockchain" is now tainted by association. I think useful would projects purposely avoid the architecture just to avoid the stigma.

Another is that p2p projects are really hard to get rolling in general. Crypto was supposed to incentivize this, and we saw how that went.

[eternityforest]

P2P should be easy. Bittorrent has worked for years.

But all the projects try to do stuff that is hard to do with P2P when we haven't even covered the easy stuff.

It doesn't help that IPFS still uses insanely more idle bandwidth than BT and doesn't work in the same use cases because of that.

[brucethemoose2]

Actually this a good counterexample. Many attempts have been made to improve on bittorrent, but we are pretty much stuck with the old protocol, not to speak of really old shady clients users tend to find.