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Maybe I'm just being slow, but how is that different from a normal bittorrent (with DHT)?

Are you asking for coordination of which parts are most rare? I though bittorrent already prioritized the least common parts in a swarm.



It has quite a few differences, namely it's not one swarm, each file (or collection) is its own torrent. This allows for easy updates (clients can get new files without having to re-download everything), it has protection against some attacks, etc.


That is supported in the bittorrent standard: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html

Not sure what the client support looks like.


This is interesting, thank you!




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