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I'm curious what lead to choosing a Bitcoin/Torrent stack over alternatives and whether there were factors besides brand recognition.

• kauegimenes 10y ago
  What alternatives you would use?
  • niftich 10y ago
    IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/ GitTorrent: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs Freenet: https://freenetproject.org/documentation.html#understand https://freenetproject.org/documentation.html#understand Urbit: https://urbit.org/docs/using/filesystem/ https://urbit.org/docs/using/filesystem/
    • mastazi 10y ago
      A couple of notable previous HN discussions about IPFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187555
  • jbpetersen 10y ago
    Ethereum and IPFS