Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet

It's relevant because everything he's done up till now isn't anything technically innovative, just mainly ways for him to make money and promote himself as some kind of Internet hero, which is is not. This project will be more of the same nonsense.

Did you read the article? He's not proposing a solution, beyond using the words "blockchain" and "encryption".

>> I think this is a strange way of looking at things. What non-trivial protocol doesn't have known design limitations?

It's still a weakness, not a feature, and when a blockchain is not a monetary thing the pressures and incentives to run infrastructure will be different, it's hard to say that a 50% attack won't be possible or desirable in that circumstance.

>> Moreover, what could you possibly hope for in addition to a self-mitigating limitation, i.e: a theoretical limit that doesn't matter in practice?

It's not theoretical though, pools have got there with BTC. There are incentives not to obviously mess with the currency at that point but perhaps subtle ways to operate to your own benefit could happen at that point.

Is it said to be him who wrote it?

Wouldn't this be akin to creating an alternative to the world wide web and not the internet? It's still needs the internet or any other similar global network to work not to mention that beyond being excessively wasteful I don't really see the point of having a "proof of work" based network rather than other distributed peered networks like Tor or Maelstrom.

Also considering his constant legal troubles and his general some what self destructing personality I have very big doubts that anyone would actually fund this guy.

That note aside I don't really see the value of all of those wannabe "internet replacement" services, I for one would rather see investment going into self arranging, self healing multi-protocols mesh networks that you could seamlessly re-build local networked infrastructure in such events as natural disasters or complete government/infrastructure meltdowns.

A solution that will able you to construct an autonomous peered mesh network across Ethernet, WiFi, Radio, and P2P links like IR and Microwave which can provide internet and WWW like infrastructure when established networks fail or are intentionally shut down can actually be rather useful, while these attempts seem to try to re-invent what already exists and that is internet lock down/censorship bypass, heck even if a government shuts down their internet uplink completely as long as the local networks are intact you can still make Tor and the likes of it work, at least as far as hidden services go and it only requires a handful of exit nodes to have an internet uplink to restore internet services as well.