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BitTorrent v2

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Re: BitTorrent v2

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Post by dividuum »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #320
dchuk wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly the problem with all cryptocurrency currently. It’s a massive user experience issue, in the sense that users have to experience the technical bullshit of how the currencies work, completely missing the brilliant part of real money: it just works. I hand people money, they give me things. I swipe my credit card, I get things. I can’t remember who aid it originally, but there’s a great test you can give…

As far as I'm aware many crypto exchanges also act as wallets and have smartphone apps that feature QR scanning for transfers / payments. The largely obviates the need for any domain knowledge.

So at this point you're really no longer using the core feature of any blockchain based currency but make changes in some SQL row in a central database that maybe later results in changes made to some blockchain on your behalf. Why even bother at this point? Might as well trade gift cards or airline miles.

Re: BitTorrent v2

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Post by lebaux »

viktorelofsson wrote: post #126

If you want to try a client with v2 (and v1+v2 hybrid) support, I've just released PicoTorrent v0.20 [0] based on Rasterbar-libtorrent 2.0 :) [0] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...

Nice. If anyone is wondering if they should try this, picotorrent is probably the most lightweight GUI torrent client for windows (no linux/mac version).

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Post by cloudhead »

rolleiflex wrote: post #83

I make P2P tools too. [0] Let me tell you this: Bittorrent is one of the few things in the space that actually ... works. It works not in the sense that there is a white paper that should work. Not in the sense that there are a few company-made swarms hosted on industrial servers that keep everyone up and alive, so that the thing gives the impression the 'P2P' network does work. Not in the sense that there is a very-…

Totally right, though I wouldn’t underestimate the growing community of people for whom p2p is a feature. Being able to use something forever because no one can shut it down is important to some.

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Post by rolleiflex »

graynk wrote: post #382
rolleiflex wrote: post #83

I make P2P tools too. [0] Let me tell you this: Bittorrent is one of the few things in the space that actually ... works. It works not in the sense that there is a white paper that should work. Not in the sense that there are a few company-made swarms hosted on industrial servers that keep everyone up and alive, so that the thing gives the impression the 'P2P' network does work. Not in the sense that there is a very-…

Aether looks cool, but why do you provide only Snap builds on Linux? I wanted to try Aether, but I avoid Snap as much as possible

We’re actually just in the middle of our move off Snap. Do subscribe to the mailing list and I can send an update once that’s out.

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Post by Muromec »

adamsea wrote: post #384
Muromec wrote: post #381

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It’s great to live a in developed world during the peace time. Sometimes you have to transfer money in and out of the country at war with it’s currency in free fall and capital controls in place. At times like that “normal” ways take about 30% of the sum as transactional overhead, while bitcoin doesn’t. Sometimes “normal“ ways just don’t work normally. Sometimes your government is actively working against your abilit…

Does this hypothetical situation you describe exist anywhere outside of the hypothetical situation posited by a character in a Neal Stephenson novel? Seriously in reality the specifics of any sort of wild situation like the one you describe matter. Which countries? Which currency? Which kind of illegal behavior? And (I ask out of ignorance) in this scenario you describe why would whatever group managing whatever bitc…

> Does this hypothetical situation you describe exist anywhere outside of the hypothetical situation posited by a character in a Neal Stephenson novel?

That indeed is a bunch of real situations that have happened to me in 2014-2015 and some of that is still a thing. Check your privileges, sweet summer child.

Like seriously — for the first 30 years of my life it was outright illegal to have a bank account in a foreign country in my name. Not enforceable in practice, except I can’t make wires between two.

So 2014, fucking Russia is being Russia again, USD wired from foreign clients goes in... and is sold for UAH at government mandated rate. I sit in a third country, withdraw it through ATM. Guess what? It is converted back to USD at a market rate. Of course you can still bring cash or btc in and sell it at market rate plus some margin, but not 30 damn percent.

Sometimes it’s less dramatic and web interface of your bank doesn’t have regexp for IBAN format of destination country. Ridiculous but have happened as well, so I have proxied IBAN that starts with GB instead of UA and that always works.

Re: BitTorrent v2

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Post by dmos62 »

> per-file hash trees

This is huge. Now the protocol supports downloading identical files from multiple torrents simultaneously.

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Post by samoa42 »

Avamander wrote: post #242
proverbialbunny wrote: post #25

It feels like this isn't a large enough leap forward. It would be nice if BitTorrent v2 made it harder for ISPs to identify what is bit torrent traffic. AT&T artificially slows down upload speeds.

Would be nice if it made QUIC and/or TCP-FO heavily recommended.

why?

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Post by StavrosK »

gruez wrote: post #262
StavrosK wrote: post #218

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How does tit-for-tat work? Is it still enabled? I don't think I've seen it much lately.

It's implemented in the choking algorithm. Basically if bandwidth or upload slots are limited, your peer with preferentially upload to peers that have reciprocated to you. AFAIK most clients implement this.

Interesting, thanks!

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Post by tuatoru »

companyhen wrote: post #313
nicbou wrote: post #257

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It has been a few years, and despite a few attempts, I still don't really understand bitcoin. Yes yes ledgers and proof of work and yada yada, but I still don't know what I would need to do to buy something with bitcoin right now. As I understand I need to do something that's pretty much exactly like opening a bank account, but transactions take forever, they cost money, and the currency is not accepted by any busine…

Communities can create value. The Bitcoin community believes Bitcoin has value, so it does. It has unique tokenomics with a limited 21m supply and is backed by math and cryptography. That's all there is to understand. Look into the history of money. Crypto just allows communities to have value. Soon you will see many communities online creating governance tokens, something like "reddit coins" but better, and you will…

> Crypto just allows communities to have value.

So do stamps, coins, Star Wars figurines in original packaging, baseball cards, yada yada.

At least you can look at those other things while you possess them.

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