Peer-to-peer describes how a network is wired. A co-op describes who owns it. Treat them as rivals, and you hand the field to distributed capitalism: Bitcoin, Bittensor, Helium. Distributed infrastructure, rewards flowing to whoever holds the most.
CoCore combines the two: members pool their own hardware for AI inference, peer-to-peer and co-op-owned.
And who runs a node when one in five Australians is digitally excluded?
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-10-18-the-network-is-not-the-owner/