@nyx @ink @lanodan A lot of your first paragraph is mirrored in GNUnet documentation & whitepapers.

The solution to the hardware problem is to also enable emulating/tunneling it atop other legacy hardware.

To the third one, there's a reason they go "let's make a GNU internet" (puns, yes), sure tunneling isn't an ideal solution but it still is an option and it bypasses purposely uncooperative political fuckwads.