I’ve been developing an Owner-Free-Filesystem variant as the base of a blockchain, at least on paper for many years and it’s been implemented and re-implemented over and over and ditched. I’m disabled, but work at Microsoft and think I have written up a complex but ultimately comprehensible description at https://github.com/The-Revolution-Network/brightChainAPI/wiki/Home
I was recommended by Kat Ramdeen to check IPFS out and I think it is a candidate to be adapted to BrightChain / vice versa. I think my network concept will get you the node buy in you need.