If BitTorrent had a token economy, I think we'd see
Strategic "seed pools" (think mining pools)
Long term seeding
Bounty markets for content ("100k tokens for HD Star Wars leak!")
Inter-tracker arbitraging (upload everywhere → easy tokens)https://medium.com/@jbackus/what-if-bittorrent-had-a-token-13d62a590aa7 …
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I think the Ipfs daemon can be put in a mode that’s exactly this.
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If you have any specific link then I'd love to take a look
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I’ll go dig around for specifics but when you apply to be a miner on filecoin they ask you some questions that imply this is an option. Also I didn’t read your post yet. I will.
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Thanks. I googled around for like 15 minutes after seeing your response but didn’t find anything. I know Filecoin is for incentivizing storage, but not aware of something similar to what I describe in the post
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Also if I’m wrong, I still think a smart client/daemon pair could be built on top of ipfs/filecoin to manage economically optimized seeding & downloading.
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OK. In a market where both speculative storage and and guaranteed storage exist side by side, do you think they could coexist stably, or would one be the clear winner?
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The hypothetical BitTorrent I'm talking about also values speed of transfer, value of content, rarity, and potential value of unreleased files. If you haven't already, I'd recommend reading my article. It is very different from IPFS
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