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TPB hasn't facilitated connections in a long time. They still got shut down.

by tyho 12y ago

toomuchtodo 12y ago
Assume you stored torrent metadata in the bitcoin blockchain. How would you shut that down?
- Houshalter 12y ago
  Then you still need to distribute the location of the metadata in the blockchain, wouldn't you? It's as silly as people who think they can store information as digits in pi.
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    The metadata itself would be in the blockchain. If you've got the blockchain, you have the data. You'd still need to find peers, but you've got the data for the content.
    - Houshalter 12y ago
      But where in the blockchain. It's multiple gigabytes, isn't it?
- tyho 12y ago
  Both git and the blockchain would be horribly inefficient. TPB's magnet list in the end was about 40MB. If git were scaled to that sort of level, it would be far larger. Also there would need to be a lot of code written on top of git to automatically synchronize files between users. Git does not really solve many of the problems faced with a decentralized public database of magnet links. A blockchain would be far worse. First of all, there would need to be some sort of currency backing it, and that currency would have to hold significant value to secure the network. A blockchain solves the problem of distributed consensus. A public distributed list of magnet links does not need such strong consistency guarantees as is needed for a financial transaction log. Both git and the blockchain are useful tools but should not be used as a solution to every distributed computing problem. The blockchain can solve a lot of distributed computing problems. It covers a very wide range of use cases, however, a large subset of those problems can also be solved with other algorithms which are far simpler, more efficient, and do not come with problems inherent to the block chain, the ever growing size, the wasted cpu-cycles, 51% attacks etc.
obvio171 12y ago
TPB's problem is that it was a SPOF. Git is distributed, so even it Github shuts down repositories, people can just still pull from each other or move to a different host.

TPB hasn't facilitated connections in a long time. They still got shut down.

by tyho 12y ago

TPB hasn't facilitated connections in a long time. They still got shut down.

toomuchtodo 12y ago

Assume you stored torrent metadata in the bitcoin blockchain. How would you shut that down?

Houshalter 12y ago
Then you still need to distribute the location of the metadata in the blockchain, wouldn't you? It's as silly as people who think they can store information as digits in pi.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  The metadata itself would be in the blockchain. If you've got the blockchain, you have the data. You'd still need to find peers, but you've got the data for the content.
  - Houshalter 12y ago
    But where in the blockchain. It's multiple gigabytes, isn't it?
tyho 12y ago
Both git and the blockchain would be horribly inefficient. TPB's magnet list in the end was about 40MB. If git were scaled to that sort of level, it would be far larger. Also there would need to be a lot of code written on top of git to automatically synchronize files between users. Git does not really solve many of the problems faced with a decentralized public database of magnet links. A blockchain would be far worse. First of all, there would need to be some sort of currency backing it, and that currency would have to hold significant value to secure the network. A blockchain solves the problem of distributed consensus. A public distributed list of magnet links does not need such strong consistency guarantees as is needed for a financial transaction log. Both git and the blockchain are useful tools but should not be used as a solution to every distributed computing problem. The blockchain can solve a lot of distributed computing problems. It covers a very wide range of use cases, however, a large subset of those problems can also be solved with other algorithms which are far simpler, more efficient, and do not come with problems inherent to the block chain, the ever growing size, the wasted cpu-cycles, 51% attacks etc.

obvio171 12y ago

TPB's problem is that it was a SPOF. Git is distributed, so even it Github shuts down repositories, people can just still pull from each other or move to a different host.