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Why is there an ffmpeg dependency if the app is only working with metadata?
It uses ffprobe for metadata, and ffmpeg for transcoding.
Makese sense, thanks.
Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
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Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
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Its going to be an unpopular take, but crypto solves this. As in currency. Make people attest to things with locking a very small amount of money.
Bitcoin originally evolved from the "hashcash" proof-of-work system, which was intended to be a scalable anti-spam measure (force an attacker to generate a unique proof that is expensive to generate but cheap to verify). And you are basically describing proof-of-stake (force participants to stake, and if they misbehave you slash their stake). I wasn't kidding about "nothing is new under the sun" ;) In general though…
>And you are basically describing proof-of-stake (force participants to stake, and if they misbehave you slash their stake). I wasn't kidding about "nothing is new under the sun
That's sort of the central point of my post....
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Mainly because I am not ready to share my DHT indexing implementation. It's the culmination of years of working with BitTorrent and DHTs and I'd like to get something back for it one day. However I do dogfood Cove and want people to have that experience too.
I would think the only thing you would get out of such work is a sternly worded cease and desist from a big entity so you might as well open-source this and let somebody else take the torch in case you are shut down. I mean I'd use such software (and huge DBs like that of Skytorrentz) for research purposes because to me distribution is hugely interesting as a hobby but many courts won't see it that way, and we know a…
Thanks for your insight!