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looks like #bittorrent dev has kinda stalled recently. many torrent devs are working on shitcoin projects now (chia, tron). Not many clients have v2 support. Maybe we need more bittorrent v2 implementoors. I am itching on hacking support for this in notedeck 🤔

bittorrent is not all about piracy. could be an interesting way to share files on nostr, as an alternative or combined approach with blossom.

bittorrent v2[1] is interesting because of its merkle hash trees: the same file can be replicated across torrent swarms.

So if you share a directory with multiple files in one torrent, and that files exists in other torrents, you can share the same seeders for those files. Maybe you could even use #blossom nodes as seeders if they have a merkle root hash that you need?

Lots of cool possibilities here 🤔

[1] https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

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Dissident Sound 1y ago

in early days of torrent connections were slow and people were using rotational disks that were fairly cheap relative to connection speed. it made sense to use a system that traded disk space inefficiency for bandwidth efficiency.

as people switched from desktop towers to laptops to phones and connections went from DSL to Cable to Fiber and 5G we are now more constrained by storage than bandwidth.

thus torrents gave way to streaming.

maybe there is a reason those devs aren't interested in torrents anymore ...

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