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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by ChadNauseam on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:35AM (#39014431)
The main advantage IPFS has over torrents with magnet links is global deduplication / a global swarm. If you seed a torrent that just contains book A, and I seed a torrent that contains books A and B, I won't provide any bandwidth to people downloading book A through your torrent. If we were using IPFS, someone downloading book A will be able to pull from both you and me, even if we don't personally know about each other and started seeding independently.
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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by roblabla on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:44AM (#39014585)
Actually, BitTorrent v2 (as specified in BEP 52) has per-file hash trees, so it supports sharing a swarm if the same file is shared between different torrents. Not a whole lot of torrents use it though.
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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by anacrolix on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:33AM (#39023667)
This sounds like a feature but it's actually a source of serious performance issues in IPFS.
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