torrents work fine without having a monetary incentive, this misconception of the blockchain crowd really has to die its killing real decentral solutions

Public torrents die all the time.

I said "incentive". You made it "monetary incentive".

What do you mean with "torrents work fine"? Do you have any statistics on the lifetime of torrents?

Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available and massively distributed. It seems very unlikely anything will ever get lost during our lifetime. So I would say that is an example that monetary incentives do work?

>Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available

This isn't useful for 99% of stuff and pushing every video and music file on earth through a global state machine with the performance characteristics of an Atari from the 80s would render the thing inoperable. The entire Bitcoin network has a bandwidth of like 1mb every 10 minutes, the total size of the blockchain is half a TB in total, people torrent more porn in the time it took me to type this.

Maintaining a global, complete history of transactions only ever made sense for one problem, double spending, and is utterly useless for sharing files.

IPFS is not a blockchain in the traditional sense. You might be conflating it with Filecoin.

ok.

but nobody said otherwise

They dont. Do a search of something older than 5 years in btdigg and you will most likely get only dead magnets.

They do on private trackers where there is an incentive usually tied to ratio or seed time. It's not a monetary incentive and it works.

Aaah private trackers! I remember once I pondered to enter one of those "special groups" but bailed when I read that you had to study for some sort of interview that was required to try to join .

Lol no... I dont like interviewing for a new job, why would i agree to get tested for something as stupid as piracy? (Unless... mention me ONE private tracker that doesn't have piracy).

So for 99% of people, my point stands.

I remember what.cd had interviews like that. Tried and failed as a kid, that was a pain

There are definitely private trackers that don't have anything like that though (iirc they're called "semi-private trackers"). One i remember using is t411 when it was still running

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