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torrents work fine without having a monetary incentive, this misconception of the blockchain crowd really has to die its killing real decentral solutions
They dont. Do a search of something older than 5 years in btdigg and you will most likely get only dead magnets.
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No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.
Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.
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Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.
Why isn’t it great? You’re the first person I’ve met that has made this assertion.
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No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.
Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.
echo "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:${info_hash}"
I was curious how this works and then I saw the sqlite requests in the network tab. It's amazing to see what we have access to these days -- SQLite over HTTP over IPFS to provide a giant, censorship-resistant database!
Can you explain bit more? Isn't the dump of last RARBG magnet links on the order of MBs? We can just download it and grep in plain text. I don't get what is the role of SQLite or IPFS here.
As I understand it, the purpose of using SQLite is indexing and querying, ie. being able to efficiently search through the data via a website.
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>Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available This isn't useful for 99% of stuff and pushing every video and music file on earth through a global state machine with the performance characteristics of an Atari from the 80s would render the thing inoperable. The entire Bitcoin network has a bandwidth of like 1mb every 10 minutes, the total size of the blockchain is half a TB in total, people tor…
IPFS is not a blockchain in the traditional sense. You might be conflating it with Filecoin.
but nobody said otherwise
Related: I just dropped a mega DB archive dump for everything I have with regard to RARBG. My hope is others will find this useful. https://github.com/sleaze/rarbg-db-dumps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187767
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No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.
Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.
The trackers are outside of info section, I assume so the list of trackers can be modified without effecting the info hash.
Though, some magnet links include an optional xs parameter which points at an http url containing the .torrent file, which would include the trackers.
In my experience, you don't receive the trackers from other peers (though maybe other bittorrent clients can?). However, if at least one peer you discover via DHT supports the peer exchange protocol, and has the trackers, your client can quickly query all the relevant peers.