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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.

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 so…

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.

We solved all that and used DHTs and download meshes, etc ...

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 …

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 ea…

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 fi…