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RE: Creating a toy cryptocurrency - Part 2a: P2P networking
There also exist "hybrid" systems where a centralised party uses a P2P network to offload traffic.
Wasn't there a brewhaha over this a few years back? I don't remember the details, but it had to do with phone companies... I don't even remember the terms or names involved to be able to look it up. But I'm now curious to know what happened with that.
Without knowing the companies in question it's difficult to comment on this, but I can imagine some people not being happy with a hybrid system - this would be misguided in my view so long as the end users know and consent to running the software I can't see any issues.