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mtgx
If there's one group that deserves to raise a ton of money through an ICO, it's the developers behind IPFS.

I wish Open Whisper Systems would do one, too, for a distributed Signal app of sorts.

HNNoLikey
> HTTP downloads a file from a single computer at a time, instead of getting pieces from multiple computers simultaneously. With video delivery, a P2P approach could save 60% in bandwidth costs.

From the IPFS site. If true, then this is ground breaking tech. I honestly didn't know that HTTP was that wasteful.