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Are the git objects themselves stored in the DHT, or is it just (like a trackerless torrent) the connection information needed to find peers willing to send you
by cjbprime 12y ago
Are the git objects themselves stored in the DHT, or is it just (like a trackerless torrent) the connection information needed to find peers willing to send you those objects?
- yrashk 12y agoThe object themselves are stored across the peers, not the connection information.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoWhat prevents someone from using this to store backups of their harddrives, photos, etc, and consuming as much space as possible?
- wmf 12y agoIt needs an incentive model, like for every GB of space you provide you get a GB of space from peers.
- yrashk 12y agoThere are proof of storage techniques. I already listed some references in the paper I am working on (https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.tex#L156-L164 https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.te...)
- cjbprime 12y agoPlease could you explain why? Trackerless bittorrent is just as decentralized, and seems more scalable.
- zimbatm 12y agoDoes trackerless bittorrent provide a way to update a file ? The git objects themselves are content-addressable (the key is the hash of the value) but you still need a unique ID that references the HEAD of this chain of objects. This id needs to be updateable.