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Bit Torrent is a cornerstone of the modern internet.
by aliqot 4y ago
Bit Torrent is a cornerstone of the modern internet.
- andirk 4y agoAll the web3 talk is scoffed at by many, but I believe in decentralizing the internet as much as possible and am a big fan of Bittorrent. To quote Satoshi Nakamoto, "For transferable proof of work tokens to have value, they must have monetary value. To have monetary value, they must be transferred within a very large network – for example a file trading network akin to bittorrent."
- mdaniel 4y agoI don't believe BT will truly take off until web seeding is functional in all clients and I can use (a site | series of sites) to make a torrent of an existing thing. There was such a site (whose cute URL escapes me) where one could plug in a URL, it would download and cook a .torrent file but with the web seeds pointed at the source, and from that point forward others could get the cached version and the process was bootstrapped I was also saddened by AWS dropping torrent support from their S3 API because that's one more easy way that folks could provide torrent bootstrapping "for free"
- killingtime74 4y agoTake off? It's unfortunately waning. Used to be 35% of all internet traffic https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-still-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-but-for-how-long-220304/ https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-still-the-king-of-ups...
- adastra22 4y agoMostly because of TV streaming services though. I wonder how much BT is of consumer backbone usage.
- UltraViolence 4y agoWeb3 is mostly about NFT and making money. Decentralization is just a buzz-word added to keep the privacy fundamentalists interested.