Whatever happened to integrating torrents with lightning ⚡️?
101 sats \ 14 comments \ @vijo 10 Jul 2022 bitcoin
This was posted almost a year ago.
Torrents + ⚡️ looks like the perfect technology match to me.
Both are unstoppable - as long as two parties can connect to each other over the internet (so always - except for a catastrophic asteroid impact).
Incentivizing seeders with something like 100 sats/GB sounds like an awesome usecase.
https://www.impervious.ai/ might enable something similar - but they were supposed to launch in April, which unfortunately hasn't happened yet.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10 Jul 2022
As long as two parties can connect over the internet, any type of data transfer is possible.
Torrents are about discovery of people with the file which you can simultaneously leech from afaict. If you already know the person that has the file, you don’t need torrents. And you can use something like Agora.
Torrents are still cool. Just kind of contesting the framing.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @vijo OP 10 Jul 2022
Cool, never heard of Agora before. Will check it out. Thanks!
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10 sats \ 8 replies \ @AJ1992 10 Jul 2022
hmmmm...torrents are kinda a thing of the past though aren't they? I haven't used a torrent in at least 3-4 years.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @KingZing 10 Jul 2022
Really? Torrents are great for large files sharing imo
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hector 11 Jul 2022
For those who use services like netflix and such maybe but i like to download what I watch.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 10 Jul 2022
torrents were invented in the past, but they are in no way an archaic technology.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AncapHodl 10 Jul 2022
Far from it, the private torrent tracker scene is still alive and as vibrant as ever. However, it's not without its problems. Integrating lightning could solve many of those problems.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @vijo OP 10 Jul 2022
I still get 99% of my content through them. What is being used instead of torrents nowadays in your opinion?
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @AJ1992 10 Jul 2022
With the insane speeds of internet now a days i dont think torrents are really necessary as they were back when a file/program took 24 hours to download and it had to run via something like limewire or utorrent in the background. Now you can download those programs in seconds straight from the internet web page.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 22 Jul 2022
No no, the thing about torrents is also that they are decentralized. They are redundancy. They work even when one central server fails. They keep records of niche and old stuff even when no one else does.
Torrents are awesome
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @vijo OP 10 Jul 2022
There's a lot of content that cannot be found on any websites though...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hector 11 Jul 2022
I used to love to seed back in the day when I had the time. If I could earn some sats by seeding I would come back for sure
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 10 Jul 2022
I think it would be great to imbue incentives into filesharing. Some data gets very rare and you can't buy it if you wanted!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @a 10 Jul 2022
I would like to see more BitTorrent BEP-46 in the wild. I think it would make a great pairing with BTC layer 2+ since it allows for mutable torrents so it can host a website on DHT instead of http
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