What are you’re favorite P2P research papers?

Question

I&rsquo;m currently doing a deep dive on P2P tech and looking for a good compilation of foundational/inspirational P2P research papers and white papers. Here is my list so far:* Kadmelia* BitTorrent* Bitcoin* Secure Scuttlebutt* IPFS* Ethereum* Pastry* DAT* Corda* OceanStoreWhat do you think is missing from the list? What are your favorites and why?

ETH_start · Accepted Answer

Two P2P concepts that ultimately failed:
Lightning Network on Bitcoin: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
Plasma on Ethereum: https://plasma.io/plasma-deprecated.pdf
Interestingly, the Lightning Network and Plasma white papers share a co-author.
Why they're educational:
Plasma helped inspire a workable scalability solution on Ethereum: Rollups
As for the Lightning Network whitepaper: it introduces a really novel and elegant idea for P2P payments that is interesting in its own right.
Moreover, the LN's ultimate failure helps teach one about the practical UX requirements for a blockchain scalability technology to be successful.
Both white papers provide an insight into the tradeoffs inherent in scalability technologies.

jauntywundrkind · Answer

Most work from the Tribler team I remember really enjoying & being excited for. Forget specifics now though. A lot of interesting advanced ways to use & enhance BitTorrent, since mid 2000's.