Add "fetch blob by hash, pay in sats" command to nostr wire protocol. Could be used for blossom or bittorrent. Incentivises running media hosts or keeping up your p2p node that friends can connect to.
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Among friends you could filehost for free
Do it.
There's prior work on this by nostr:nprofile1qqszv6q4uryjzr06xfxxew34wwc5hmjfmfpqn229d72gfegsdn2q3fgpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3e82efwvdhk6tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99urf278z and others
Enki has something cooking
Should have more updates on it in a day or so.
If you don't have the requested data, you can forward the request to peers that might have it. "Asking for a friend" — also increases privacy when request origin is not obvious.
Yes. I would run a seed box.
Martii's idea is great
nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr does your POC do this?
no, my POC only had paid uploads. never got to the point of trying downloads