Quote from: misterbigg on April 23, 2013, 06:04:30 PM

I strongly suspect that the distribution of processing power, memory, bandwidth, and up time for Bitcoin nodes will very closely resemble that of the Gnutella network back in the days, since the peer to peer overlay functions identically.

I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for several P2P networks to share the purely network-related parts of their protocols and networks. That should give us both strength in numbers and synergy. For instance, some have speculated that Satoshi's initial goal was to provide a currency that could be used to provide a financial incentive for running Tor nodes.