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I'm not super familiar with v2 but from what I have read it's not clear how it achieves the same thing as IPFS. Yes, the file-hashing is deterministic, which can allow deduplication across torrents, but it doesn't seem to facilitate either discovery or addressing at the file level. Trackers/DHT and magnet links still only use the info hash (torrent level) as far as I can tell. IPFS puts file/object hashes in the DHT…
> which has various benefits. But also the downside of being incompatible with the BitTorrent network and it's myriad of seeders and torrents. I think quite a few P2P projects have thrown out compatibility for the sake of some functionality but also the entire baby. PeerTube did the same, disabled WebTorrent support by-default before any BitTorrent clients got WT support. The desire to "move fast" makes people forget…
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
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