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wildduck on May 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peermaps

How is the does the peers discover each other? Via DHT? Or is it implementing webtorrent?

lgierth on May 17, 2019 [–]

Most of it uses Dat and IPFS under the hood.

ilaksh on May 17, 2019 | [–]

Dumb question.. why do people use dat instead of torrents?

Other dumb question. Are there dat builds for Android? The client is Node I believe.

fwip on May 17, 2019 | | [–]

Torrents are static, dat archives can have updates pushed to them.

pabs3 on May 18, 2019 | | [–]

There is a BEP for updatable torrents:

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

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