Basically title. I remember reading about it back in like 2018, I even remember a company that would provide crypto based on the amount of traffic you let through. Just curious if that ever saw any growth.
Everything I google keeps bringing up things on the darkweb. The goal of this was explicitly to go “ISP-less”. Like they envisioned mesh net covering giant swathes of space.
You may be thinking of BGP: Border Gateway Protocol. it’s a gateway protocol that routes internet data between asynchronous systems.
https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/bgp-border-gateway-protocol
We use this a lot for company to company networks