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It would be interesting to create a distributed catalog of torrents itself.
by mirap 10y ago
It would be interesting to create a distributed catalog of torrents itself.
- omginternets 10y agoMaybe I'm not picking up what you're putting down, but how does this differ from DHT?
- forgottenpass 10y agoIt might be possible with the DHT alone, but I think for what the grandparent poster wants it would depend on the ability to query the DHT. Both in general and by popularity and insert date. That might be possible, but with the prvelence of magnet links instead of everyone using that, I just assumed not.
- icebraining 10y agoIt's possible to do something fully distributed, but not just with the existing DHT network: https://www.tribler.org/ https://www.tribler.org/
- kpcyrd 10y agoif you substitute torrents with ipfs this is trivial: # create empty folder FOLDER=`ipfs object new unixfs-dir` # add folders to object FOLDER=`ipfs object patch "$FOLDER" add-link 2017-01 "$HASH_2017_01"` FOLDER=`ipfs object patch "$FOLDER" add-link 2017-02 "$HASH_2017_02"` FOLDER=`ipfs object patch "$FOLDER" add-link 2017-03 "$HASH_2017_03"` # print final hash echo $FOLDER This would result in a hash that has the folders for January, February and March, which can have arbitrary nested folders and files in them.