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Ask HN: What are you’re favorite P2P research papers?
I’m currently doing a deep dive on P2P tech and looking for a good compilation of foundational/inspirational P2P research papers and white papers. Here is my list so far:
* Kadmelia
* BitTorrent
* Bitcoin
* Secure Scuttlebutt
* IPFS
* Ethereum
* Pastry
* DAT
* Corda
* OceanStore
What do you think is missing from the list? What are your favorites and why?
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoMost work from the Tribler team I remember really enjoying & being excited for. Forget specifics now though. A lot of interesting advanced ways to use & enhance BitTorrent, since mid 2000's.
- ETH_start 3y agoTwo P2P concepts that ultimately failed: Lightning Network on Bitcoin: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf Plasma on Ethereum: https://plasma.io/plasma-deprecated.pdf https://plasma.io/plasma-deprecated.pdf Interestingly, the Lightning Network and Plasma white papers share a co-author. Why they're educational: Plasma helped inspire a workable scalability solution on Ethereum: Rollups As for the Lightning Network whitepaper: it introduces a really novel and elegant idea for P2P payments that is interesting in its own right. Moreover, the LN's ultimate failure helps teach one about the practical UX requirements for a blockchain scalability technology to be successful. Both white papers provide an insight into the tradeoffs inherent in scalability technologies.