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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
I'm the author of https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent (started in 2013) and https://github.com/anacrolix/dht (started in 2015). I have a DHT indexer implementation I developed in 2021. It's currently closed source but available for use as part of https://www.coveapp.info/. I have found that after several hours the search is excellent and stays up to date with ease.
- Theseus DHT Protocol
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DHT VS dht - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 13 Jan 2022
Implements the underlying server part that DHT does, plus is used by other projects to implement indexing.
bittorrent-dht
- Theseus DHT Protocol
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Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
I'm not talking about the consensus protocol of the blockchain itself, but of the p2p algorithms underlying it, e.g. using Kademlia for service discovery and message routing. I'm asking why a distributed system would choose something like Consul (which uses Raft, and requires a coordinator node) instead of running a decentralized protocol like Kademlia (which has no coordinator nodes) within their distributed single-tenant environment.
I did a bit more research last night, and discovered that Bitfinex actually does something like this internally (anyone know if this is up to date?) [0] — they built a service discovery mesh by storing arbitrary data on a DHT implementing BEP44 (using webtorrent/bittorrent-dht [1]).
This seems pretty cool to me, and IMO any modern distributed system should consider running decentralized protocols to benefit from their robustness properties. Deploying a node to a decentralized protocol requires no coordination or orchestration, aside from it simply joining the network. Scaling a service is as simple as joining a node to the network and announcing its availability of an implementation of that service.
At first glance, this looks like a competitive advantage, because it decouples the operational and maintenance costs of the network from the size of the network.
So I'm wondering if there is a consistent tradeoff in exchange for this robustness — are decentralized applications more complex to implement but simpler to operate? Is latency of decentralized protocols (e.g. average number of hops to lookup item in a DHT) untenably higher than that of distributed protocols (e.g. one hop once to get instructions from coordinator, then one hop to lookup item in distributed KV)? Does a central coordinator eliminate some kind of principle agent problem, resulting in e.g. a more balanced usage of the hashing keyspace?
Decentralization emerged because distributed solutions fail in untrusted environments — but this doesn't mean that decentralized solutions fail in trusted environments. So why not consider more decentralized protocols to scale internal systems?
[0] https://github.com/bitfinexcom/grenache
[1] https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-dht
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Decentralized in-browser torrent site
Yes the database is fixed. I would like to make it updateable using web2web or mutable torrents (BEP44) which the WebTorrent DHT supports.
What are some alternatives?
confluence - Torrent client as a HTTP service
webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
holochain-proto - Holographic storage for distributed applications -- a validating monotonic DHT "backed" by authoritative hashchains for data provenance (a Ceptr sub-project)
ipfs-pubsub-room - IPFS Pubsub room
TBitTorrent - BitTorrent client with terminal UI written in Go
bittorrent-tracker - 🌊 Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation
torpar - TUI Client for Torrent Paradise
torrent-paradise - Decentralized DHT search site for IPFS
torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities
webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web [Moved to: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent]
exatorrent - Easy to Use Torrent Client. Can be hosted in Cloud. Files can be streamed in Browser/Media Player.
webtorrent-desktop - ❤️ Streaming torrent app for Mac, Windows, and Linux