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There are 3 other issues: hosting the UI, DNS, and monetization. You can get away with hosting a client-heavy JavaScript interface on ipfs as well, but the URL
by thinkloop 10y ago
There are 3 other issues: hosting the UI, DNS, and monetization.
You can get away with hosting a client-heavy JavaScript interface on ipfs as well, but the URL will be ugly making you reliant on Google not dropping you (central point of failure).
And then there is incentive - even if you manage to anonymously take Bitcoin for ads or what have you, someone will eventually take all the work and strip them. The whole thing will have to be a labor of love. Any lovers out there?
- shade23 10y ago> but the URL will be ugly making you reliant on Google not dropping you (central point of failure) How many people use google to start a search for torrents? I stopped doing so because the higher results would normally be clickbait links
- dyml 10y agoThe UI - couldn't it just be a general client, much like uTorrent or Magnet is?
- thinkloop 10y agoYes that's true, and given that torrenting is generally reliant on installed software as well, it shouldn't heavily impact adoption. I did think of another issue: search, sort, voting, etc. Ethereum is too expensive, too slow, and possibly not capable of that kind of large data set computation - not aware of any capable alternative.