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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by eevilspock on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @09:23PM (#12133906)
A distributed blockchain sounds right. Now imagine that "mining" for this blockhchain is serving torrents, and you have to spend currency to download. The currency can be sold for monetary currency (e.g. dollars or bitcoin), so leechers could pay seeders.
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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:42AM (#12135176)
What problem are you trying to solve? Downloading torrents works fine. The weak link is the search engine and description-host.
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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by posterboy on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:26PM (#12134428)
and soon you'd have monopolies seeding and the whole decentralization fades.
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