Your assumption seems to be that the nodes in a network will be of somehow comparable size and power.

Where do you get that idea from?

Colman:

When it comes down to it, everything in human society is a peer-to-peer network with some structure on top.

Correct.

Our current conflicted and obscure legal and financial overlay or "structure" is the problem, and it is here that changes are not just necessary, but already taking place.

I see a decentralised and non-hierarchical network of networked partnership protocols coming about bottom up to gradually make the existing system redundant.  But it's not a case of "either/or", rather of organic evolution.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky