• Something Burger 🍔@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Torrents identify groups of files, and different torrents with the same files will have different hashes and clients will download them from different peers, split across different trackers. IPFS identifies unique files, and all copies of the same files are available to all clients.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks. That makes sense. I wonder why torrents couldn’t be somehow adapted for this use case though. They’re way more widespread than IPFS.