--- Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yeah, reimplementing Mojo Nation will solve all our > problems! Repeat > after me the mantra "there's no problem on earth a > market cannot > solve... lalalalalalalalalala"... Hehehe, do I sense so political leaning here?
I'm going to try to give a fair/nice answer: Picture a P2P network were all nodes are equal. On average all nodes will: 1) post the same number of requests, 2) find the same number of things in cache, 3) upload the same amount of data, 4) download the same amount of data. 5) insert the same amount of data So if everyone makes sure his neighbor isn't screwing him too much the system works. For example the scarcest resource seems to be up-bandwidth. If we upload to our neighbors only as much as they upload to us plus a fudge factor of "credit" (say 5% plus 1MB), nobody can freeload on up-bandwidth. If not all nodes were created equal (or some nodes are just more equal then others :-) ), then the big ones just make proportionally more connections. Problem solved. No market, no futures, no options, no BS capitalism, no central authority, just some simple barter and a little of the golden rule. In fairness there are people working on credit systems in P2P networks with no central authority. It's hard and not nessesary to solving Freenet's problems. Captialist Speak: There would have to be some pretty big value added to offset the transaction costs. Think of freenet as the worst 3rd world coutry there is; there's no leader, not even a dictator, no bank, no court, no currency; people(nodes) owing you things just disapear. It's a bad place to do buisness. __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingelt�ne f�rs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
