Can you sketch a scenario in which seeding a Torrent is rewarded with Satoshis?
If yes, I don‘t see valid counter-arguments.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/345 is pretty ingenious and simple, and could be a good thing, even though I agree with all the criticisms it has received too.
But personally I don't understand why we can't just use torrents. BitTorrent already supports "webseeds", which are servers that literally serve the file, and the same file can be served from many of these servers. BitTorrent is a very simple protocol too, with many libraries and implementations in many different languages. There is no reason to reinvent things.
Or maybe there is. What is the reason? What can this (or other similar proposals) do that BitTorrent directly can't?
Can you sketch a scenario in which seeding a Torrent is rewarded with Satoshis?
If yes, I don‘t see valid counter-arguments.
I don't understand your point, but I had a half-working prototype for paid seeding using a BitTorrent extension some years ago, which I never finished because it was hard to imagine it having a lot of demand.
Maybe I was thinking a bit too far. NIP94 and 95 seem to be about targeted files. I was thinking about the main use case for filesharing:
Images and videos in your nostr feed. Currently I‘m signing messages containing URLs which may change the linked image in the future. The weakest link in censor resistance is then Imgur (or AWS). Signing magnet links (or generally content hashes) would allow clients to verify that the referenced image still is what I published in the past. Using BitTorrent would already solve this.
The problem I would like to solved though is one about hosting costs. Why should anyone seed your files? Maybe the clients could? This would be technically challenging, I guess. So I think it‘s more probable that nostr relays would run a filehoster sidecar and earn money from it.