Difficult to say. The tech is solid, but not many people know of it today. I’m sure it would’ve been a blessing for Iranian people because one of its inherent characteristics is that you can have as many or as little “uplinks” to the rest of the world and the mesh just figures out a way to route around without requiring human coordination like BGP, which is what runs most of the internet routing today. It could be on par with early day bitcoin or it could be like one of the precursors to bitcoin. Contrary to fiat, the internet wasn’t designed with malicious intent, it was barely designed and had to scale fast so compromises were made. But it’s no surprise that malicious institutions benefit from the current state of affairs, IPv6 has been not only ignored but also nerfed. For instance, it has a global multicast reserved, which would be useful for p2p service discovery over the internet but most ISPs simply block it. It took a whole lot of abuse from the fiat system to push some people into bitcoin, do we need to wait for more infrastructure abuse to finally see people adopt high speed meshnets? Will TollGate/pkt.cash infiltrate mesh over time? I don’t know the answer. Lastly there’s also the case of applications: clearnet is highly optimized for client server architectures and heavily penalizes p2p, not because the fiber optics don’t like p2p, but because devices weren’t globally addressable before IPv6 and hole punching NATs was a whole ordeal, then inertia developed due the slow adoption of IPv6. Think about it: we ask for no permission to sign our notes but instead of pushing them directly to one another we settle with sending notes to a random “relay” which then passes it forward. So suppose that we live in the same city and we connect every single thing with FIPS. Great, many redundant routes to choose from, we can ping each other. But if said city loses all of its connections to the outside world, and we haven’t set up a nostr relay inside, or we did but didn’t add to our client config etc. we simply won’t be able to exchange notes, even though we’re both routable to each other. Great, so applications don’t need to be changed to work with mesh networks but they will not be able to utilize them to the full potential unless they do. But wait a minute, the astute optmizooor says, if the internet is what everyone uses and meshnets are just a niche then we should ignore them until they have users! And then meshnets end up in a potential limbo of value. It’s a chicken and egg situation, nobody makes p2p friendly networks because nobody makes p2p applications because nobody makes p2p friendly networks. TL;DR: I think the tech is pretty solid, it’s the logical next step in infrastructure but the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯