the wildest bit here is that the torrent code base provided much of the basis for the coins, like the coins are literally recuperation of torrenting

i’m pretty sure there isn’t anything from the bittorrent code base in bitcoin 🤔 but maybe in some other blockchain?

distributed hash tables is mostly what I’m referring to here - this is where blockchain comes from

Nope, bitcoin doesn’t actually use a DHT at all. Bittorrent has an optional one for “trackerless torrents”, but it is usable (and is very often used) without it. Notice how magnet URLs you find on torrent search engines are full of tracker hostnames - this is so that you don’t need to rely on the DHT.

Where they are similar, ironically contrary to this meme, is the seeding: nodes in bitcoin will (freely, without any payment) send historical chain data to anyone who requests it, just like torrent seeders do.