Newnode: decentralized content distribution network

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to download content to a local device using a decentralized content distribution network, the method comprising:

• receiving a request, at the local device, from an application to download content using the decentralized content distribution network;
• determining, by the local node, a plurality of nodes in the decentralized content distribution network to download the content;
• and
• for each node in the plurality of nodes,
• attempting to establish communications between the local device and that node by challenging the node so as to verify that the node can communicate with the local device, wherein the challenge is based on at least echoing an initial content request,
• downloading a portion of the content from that node if communication is established between the local device and that node, wherein a size of the portion is based on at least a network characteristic of that node, the local device becomes a proxy node for that node when that node is a cloud injector for the content, and the cloud injector node authenticates the content by cryptographically signing the content, and
• downloading a portion of the content from a proxy node if communication cannot be established between the local device and that node, wherein the size of the portion is based on at least a network characteristic of that proxy node.