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The biggest thing is that in IPFS each chunk has a CID, and that CID is globally unique and sharable from other CIDs. You can think of each CID as a mangent li
by georgyo 4y ago
The biggest thing is that in IPFS each chunk has a CID, and that CID is globally unique and sharable from other CIDs.
You can think of each CID as a mangent link, and each CID can point to more CIDs.
Where as in a torrent the peer tracking is done at the whole torrent level, instead of the chunks inside the torrent.
Torrent V2[0], which has poor adoption thus far, should also allow for a similar ability. To my knowledge this is not being taken advantage of yet.
[0]: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/ https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
- mdp2021 4y ago> each chunk has a CID An extremely interesting problem, fingerprinting generic binary - reducing kilobytes and megabytes into a handful of bytes, and avoiding collision. Much simpler on large data.