It feels like nostr is enabling a decentralized protocol renaissance. nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 added this torrent NIP recently: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1175 what if we utilize bittorrent for discovering and sharing files via nostr? This is not a new idea but the network affects could have huge benefits on seeding:
Imagine someone reposts a torrent and says “please help me seed this”. Then clients could integrate bittorrent and start helping out right away. Then you could zap people who helped seed.
nostr can fix many decentralized protocol incentives problem just from its network effects and embrace of open protocols.
Torrent really need a fix on its incentives to seeds. All torrents I see today are 99% leaches against 1% seeds. But at least it removes the needs of the seeds being hosted at single-point failure.
Wonderful to see you guys fixing this protocol. It’s sad only UDP can do p2p and it’s being kept outside of browsers.
Sad part is I can’t use my GitHub to contribute because I’m locked out.
torrent works in browser https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
