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Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem by namibj on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:34PM (#23209016)
The distributed-but-signed way is there in https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html (Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items).

That draft status is of little practical relevance, though, if nothing changed for years, and no one voiced well-founded critic on the technical details.

I do agree though that Hyperdrive is different from what the bittorrent ecosystem has to offer. I too like not reinventing the wheel where that's not necessary, as you recommend there. I'll leave you the list of BEPs for further reading, in case you're interested: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

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Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem by black_puppydog on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:43AM (#23221115)
I've been keeping an eye on that list for a long time. There's some really cool stuff in there, and I think bittorrent has really been within reach of being "simply good enough for most applications" for quite some time now. And the massive user base is of course a good thing there, especially if you're talking more about archival projects.
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