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by pabs3 463 days ago
Same as in the not-P2P Cloudflare world, get the data from the only node that has a copy of it, which would be the HTTP server or the P2P node run by the website owner.
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So CDN with extra steps? In your world Cloudflare or anything like it would be in the best position to make itself indispensable for such a network.

Regular client nodes won’t be the backbone of your P2P network these days since many of them are going to be mobile devices. So you are back to a tiered system where you have nodes which are more suitable for hosting (servers) and most suitable for consumers (clients).