Blust on how P2P is saving the World Wide Web

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Blust CEO, Rhett Sampson believes that the web is fundamentally broken, both from a data and a network point of view.
• In an article written by Rhett for Medium he discusses the solution to a broken World Wide Web.

Blust CEO, Rhett Sampson believes that the web is fundamentally broken, both from a data and a network point of view.

The World Wide Web and its client server architecture are testing the global telco and ISP network infrastructure to the limit.

Rhett says: “HTTP protocol is no longer the most efficient way to locate, store and send data on the modern internet.

The increasing rise of video has placed even more strain on this infrastructure.

Juan Benet (Protocol Labs), Time Berners- Lee and others, want to fix this damaged protocol by returning to the original p2p design of the Internet.”

Berners-Lee’s Inruptuses linked data to return control of personal information to the individual and stores it in Solid “PODS”, to be accessed peer to peer. Benet’s IPFS and Filecoin use content based addressing (hashes, or file “fingerprints”) for super-efficient location of the exact piece of information you’re looking for, no matter where it is.

Distributed storage drives down cost and increases reliability and efficiency of the Internet as a whole. This works across all p2p systems, including blockchain.

Telco architecture and engineers change very slowly. Telco engineers think radial star networks by nature. Internet engineers thought peer to peer from day one.

Content Distribution Networks seek to fix this by building overlay networks to complement the Internet.

Internet Video is becoming nearly impossible to manage with fixed networks.

Due to networks being under-sized and engineers being unaware of the increasing boom in internet video’s, it is very difficult for telco’s to charge enough capital reserves required to fix it.

Rhett believes the solution for this problem is a combination of peer to peer and CDN, using both semi-permanent and on-demand peers and p2p network technology at the edge of the network to scale for large live events.

About Blust

Blust is a completely new model and platform for movie aggregation, distribution, payment and consumption, built on a new peer to peer and blockchain technology stack under the Secure Peer Assist architecture, approved and supported by Hollywood. It delivers latest release movies in premium 4K quality for sale or rent, with no subscriptions or spinning wheel of death.

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