gbildson

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by gbildson 4mo ago
Every limewire client was a host cache and came with a bootstrap list of ips of one kind or another. One feature that I'm surprised that Bitcoin didn't use.
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by gbildson 4mo ago
Gnutella developers created huge innovations and would have continued to do so if not sued out of existence. We solved scalability and had good download mesh + DHT solutions for sourcing. I'm sure we would have been at least as good as
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by gbildson 4mo ago
LimeWire was huge .. 100s of millions of downloads in those days. It only went away because it was sued out of existence. Plus, by the end, it supported torrents as well.
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by gbildson 4mo ago
We solved all that and used DHTs and download meshes, etc ...
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by gbildson 4mo ago
Gnutella's original sin was that it combined distributed search with distributed download. In a rational world, that would be smart and good but in a litigious world, that was too sophisticated for the Supreme Court and they ruled it a
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by gbildson 4mo ago
Shout out to Gene Kan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan ) who was the intermediary at least for the release of the Gnutella spec and reference client from Nullsoft and an early supporter. He died too young.
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by gbildson 4mo ago
We made it scale with last hop query routing. Basically we realized that 90% of the query traffic occurred on the last hop (ultrapeer to ultrapeer). So we took the keyword bloom filter we were already using on leaf node connections, aggrega
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AOL’s Kanvas launches an SDK: now any app can use its photo and video effects(techcrunch.com)
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