![]() ![]() I keep querying subsequent nodes, getting closer and closer, until I hit a node that has the infohash. That node will reply with the contact information of nodes from its routing table that are closer* to the infohash than itself. If I want to download Game of Thrones, I send a request for the torrent infohash to any known node. An infohash of each available torrent is also stored in the table. I just want to find some peers who have the episode.īitTorrent nodes maintain a distributed hash table (DHT), which is like a location map for all the clients in the network. I don’t need to broadcast to the entire network that I’m looking for a pirated copy of Game of Thrones. Whereas Bitcoin operates on consensus, BitTorrent operates on discovery. If the peers consider the transaction valid, they rebroadcast it to all of their peers. When someone sends a transaction through a node, the node broadcasts it to all of their peers. The seed nodes return a list of IP addresses for other known nodes. OpenBazaar uses the network structure of BitTorrent.Ī brand-new Bitcoin node discovers other nodes by hitting up a few known seed nodes. ![]() Not any more than Microsoft is a Bitcoin company for accepting bitcoin payments, anyway. People call OpenBazaar a Bitcoin company, but it’s not. I assume that’s what Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures were thinking when they invested $1 million into decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar. Etsy’s great! Except… I just wish it wasn’t so… centralized. ![]()
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