• culpritus@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    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

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

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • AgreeableLandscape☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Better yet, you’re not forced to download the entire history of every torrent ever to download one torrent. And you don’t have to host every torrent ever to host one torrent.

  • frippa@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    You seed to get access to private torrents I seed because I hate capitalism and copyright We are not the same