We’ve been looking at using IPFS as a peer-to-peer network for health information exchanges (HIEs). Not for the patient’s protected health information; but for configuration files and things like provider directories, lists of hospitals and medicare/medicaid, current billing/charge fees, lists of insurers in each state, diagnostic ontologies, etc.
I think the trick with IPFS is to find good peer-to-peer use cases. Once that’s done, IPFS+Meteor is like peanut butter and jelly, as far as architecture goes. Isomorphic peer-to-peer code. It’s perfect for a mesh network.
One would think there are some SpaceX style applications as well. Kerbal space program add on, maybe?