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Re:Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of Th... by annonch on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:49AM (#19209388)
>"provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent"

What does this statement mean, links to IPFS? trackers to bittorrent?

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Re:Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of Th... by jackrobison on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:55AM (#19209451)
The metadata stored in the blockchain contains a hash to the header blob of data for the stream. Peers for this header and later data blobs are found on the lbry DHT. Once peers are found the blobs are downloaded over a tcp based protocol.
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