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xwvvvvwx on Nov 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The decentralized WeTransfer

It would not be inaccurate to consider IPFS as an evolution of the Bittorrent protocol.

whyrusleeping on Nov 4, 2017 | [–]

I wouldn't disagree with that.

alexsicart on Nov 4, 2017 | [–]

Very different protocols!

mkl on Nov 5, 2017 | [–]

From the primary IPFS paper [1], which mentions "torrent" 26 times:

"In IPFS, data distribution happens by exchanging blocks with peers using a BitTorrent inspired protocol"

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/tree/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs

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