Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders

November 27, 2023 00:57:35
Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders
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Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders

Nov 27 2023 | 00:57:35

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Guy Swann

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"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files."

~ Shinobi


Bittorrent was one of the most important protocols in the world during its day, but it always had one striking drawback, for any content that wasn't very popular, availability was always a problem. Even more so today as the network has found itself a smaller and more fringe part of internet culture. What if there was a way to incentivize seeders to return? To bring the P2P protocol back into its element?

An anonymous proposal called Durabit, seeks to marry bitcoin, ecash, and bittorrent, to potentially breathe new life into the old P2P system. Listen to today's episode to learn more.

Check out the original article at DURABIT: INCENTIVIZING TORRENT SEEDING WITH BITCOIN (Link: https://tinyurl.com/5drhn83u)


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