Subject: [Din] Relevant existing work

From: Jaime Jiménez <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:03:27 +0000

Hi,

happy to join this list. I think that some very important work for this group is the WebTorrent P2P protocol. https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

It is an implementation of WebRTC and bittorrent done entirely on JS, running in the browser without plugins. You can add resources as magnet uris that your browser will fetch form other nodes on the dht network, video, audio, text …  So you can basically have a self hosted website that leverages the visitors of the site to have them actually host it. Anyone can implement their own tracker (or any organization could) https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-tracker

It was also shown in the decentralised web summit (  video of the event: https://youtu.be/Yth7O6yeZRE?t=2h45m35s  )

Ciao,
- - Jaime Jimenez