Extra support could be added to try and retrieve the FUNDING file when browsing source forges. Good idea.

I read about Brave Rewards. It's definitely not something I aim to replicate as a whole. Maybe they have nifty distribution methods worth copying? Would be interested in that.

I look forward to the feedback :) Enjoy your vacation!

I remember seeing this and losing track of it a year or more ago. But the ecosystem seems to have died about 2 years. Libraries are all 2+ years old. The downside I see with it is that it requires signing up to join the system, which is surely a blocker for many people. First you have to know about it, then you have to trust it, and then you have to find the people who use it.

That said, I love the idea of being able to pay for anything with your web-browser. How far away we are from it though, I don't know. The name "interledger" is also unfortunate as it immediately makes you think "crypto", which will probably turn off a lot of people to the wallet.

It isn't clear to me how the connection to the bank is actually made. Gatehub for example says SEPA and Wire transfers work, but so do XRP, and bitcoin. The wallet seems to be held by them, but does that make them a bank? Maybe I'm thinking to much about it...

Maybe it warrants another look. But I do think that connecting the current world to easy donations is important. Web monetisation could be added later once it becomes a standard.

You typically want a slightly-more-elaborate approach than just handing the network a hash and then getting a file.

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Blake 3 supports verified streaming as it is built upon merkle trees as you described. So is IPFS. As I mentioned, IPFS hashes are that of the tree, not the file contents themselves, but that doesn't help when you have a SHA256 sum of a file and want to download it. Maybe there are networks that map the SHA256 sum to a blake3 sum, an IPFS CID, or even an HTTP URI, but I don't know of one, hence the question here.

BitTorrent and Hyphanet have mechanisms that do this.

Do you know of a way to exploit that? A library maybe?

I'm not sure what your concern is. I'd basically like to call a function retrieveFile(fileHash) and get bytes back. Or call retrieveFileLocations(fileHash) and get URIs back to where the file can be downloaded. Also, it'll be opensource, so nothing to reverse engineer.

How do I retrieve a file from bittorrent with just its hash? Does WebMirror solve that? I'll have a look at it...

If you sha256sum $file and send that hash to somebody, they can't download the file from IPFS (unless it's <2MB IINM), that's the problem. And it can be any hashing algorithm md5, blake, whatever.