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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by shp0ngle on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:24PM (#24631231)
BitTorrent 2.0 is not recent, no.

The current bittorrent company is interested in chasing ICOs, I don’t think they work on new versions of the protocol anymore?

edit: yeah it’s from 2008

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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by leppr on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:25PM (#24633188)
Going on a tangent but this article that came out today is a good read for anyone that didn't follow what happened to BitTorrent the company: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisitio...
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by capableweb on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:54PM (#24631540)
People are working on BitTorrent yes! libtorrents blog made a blog post quite recently (September 7th, 2020) - https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by shp0ngle on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:01PM (#24645619)
That is libtorrent, unrelated to bittorrent, no? (organizationally)
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by capableweb on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:26AM (#24649668)
Yeah, maybe you were explicitly talking about the company BitTorrent Inc.

"work on new versions of the protocol anymore?" made me think of the BitTorrent protocol in general, sorry for the misunderstanding.

I think you're right that the BitTorrent company aren't directly involved in the protocol work, they seem to be focused on trying to push their plagiarized cryptocurrency project.

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