Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree (by bitcoin)
webtorrent
⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web (by webtorrent)
| Bitcoin | webtorrent | |
|---|---|---|
| 908 | 83 | |
| 82,556 | 30,024 | |
| 1.0% | 0.5% | |
| 10.0 | 9.0 | |
| 5 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| C++ | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Bitcoin
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bitcoin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-01.
- Bitcoin Core Contributors
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Release Radar · October 2024: Major updates from the open source community
Well AI is the new blockchain, but that doesn't mean blockchain is dead. Bitcoin is here with a new release of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. The project includes a wallet and graphical user interface. The latest update includes new features such as support for Testnet4, policy changes, updates to RPCs and REST APIs, detection of wallet transactions when they conflict with the mempool, and lots more. Read up on all the changes in the Bitcoin release notes.
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Analyzing Bitcoin Transactions with Lightning Node Insights
Ubuntu/Debian: Install LND: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#install-lnd Install Bitcoin Core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#linux-instructions
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Simulate your first Lightning transaction on the Bitcoin regtest network Part 1 (MacOS)
To be able to follow along, you must have both bitcoind and lnd installed.
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Generating and Working With ScriptPubKeys in Bitcoin Transactions
As mentioned previously, ScriptPubKeys are scripts that embody the locking conditions of bitcoins in a Bitcoin transaction. They are a crucial element of a Bitcoin transaction that specifies the requirements that must be met before an unspent transaction output (UTXO) is used. The ScriptPubKey, combined with the Amount, creates an output of a Bitcoin transaction. Like every other script, ScriptPubKeys are made up of operators and data. During the encoding of a transaction, both data and the operands are represented in hexadecimal format. You can find the hex representation for all operands used in Bitcoin Scripts here.
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Understanding BTC Software
Which article? Have a look at Luke's CVE and pull request https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50428 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408
- On chain censorship "war" heats up on BTC with a CVE raised against Ordinals
- What are some of the arguments for / against limiting datacarriersize ?
- BTC's Luke Dashjr: '24 Bitcoin Core Update Will Disrupt Ordinals, BRC-20
- Daily General Discussion - December 10, 2023
webtorrent
Posts with mentions or reviews of webtorrent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-12.
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Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
Yeah, it uses webtorrent behind the scenes: https://webtorrent.io
...which is freaking awesome torrent software, by the way.
- WebTorrent: Fast Streaming Torrent Client for the Web
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Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC
https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
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I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server
It's because of the kind of content that is shared. BitTorrent serves a lot of content you are not allowed to redistribute, so having an open gateway immediately puts you at risk of aiding the distribution of content. But it does work, someone even made something native to browsers so browsers themselves can share content: https://webtorrent.io/. There are even fuse "gateways" to make it native to your computer and pretend the files exist locally: https://github.com/search?q=bittorrent+fuse&type=repositorie...
IPFS doesn't seem to be used for that kind of content much, it seems to be targeted more towards web-native content (html pages, images, that kind of stuff). It's probably safer for Cloudflare to run this.
- WebTorrent – JavaScript torrent Streaming In browser
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How can i make a torrent streamer similar to webtorrent and stremio?
title. I have some experience with c++ but not much with torrent libraries. (webtorrent, stremio)
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Now that Netflix is cracking down on account sharing, can we please get physical releases?
You can stream torrents
- Ihr dürftet nur noch einen Streaming-Dienst (Musik, Filme, etc.) abonnieren. Welcher wäre es?
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Suggestions to host 10TB data with a monthly and100TB bandwidth
If it fits your model, WebTorrent[0] can offload a lot of bandwidth to peers.
[0] https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Bitcoin and webtorrent you can also consider the following projects:
BitcoinJS - A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
peerflix - Streaming torrent client for node.js
umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.
ipfs - IPFS implementation in JavaScript
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
peer-vnc - Secure Access VNC from anywhere based on noVNC