[HN Gopher] Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
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       Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
        
       Author : curmudgeon22
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-02-20 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | x86ARMsRace wrote:
       | > "the only way to take Tribler down is to take The Internet
       | down" (but a single software bug could end everything)
       | 
       | This is a very odd line, it (to me) means that either Tribler
       | could have a fatal bug, or the internet would have to go down.
        
       | throwawaysea wrote:
       | I'm not an expert at these decentralized technologies. How does
       | this compare to Bitchute or Peertube or LBRY or DTube?
        
       | xirbeosbwo1234 wrote:
       | Surprise, surprise: it's full of child porn.
       | 
       | I very much like these sorts of P2P projects. I hate the fact
       | that all of them come with a pointless cryptocurrency bolted on.
       | Bittorrent has worked beautifully for pirates for going on twenty
       | years without one.
        
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       | intricatedetail wrote:
       | When people start moving to such projects en masse, when
       | government loses control over what is being published, the what
       | stops them from making such tools illegal with a stroke of a pen?
       | Does it have any resiliency against that?
        
       | nerdponx wrote:
       | I like it, more ways to prove "work" without wasting CPU/GPU
       | cycles doing literally useless math. This, I think, is the way
       | forward with cryptocurrency.
       | 
       | They mention Filecoin and Storj in the writeup, but they don't go
       | into a detailed comparison. How does this differ from those
       | platforms? And how do they plan to overcome the initial hurdle of
       | "getting enough people to use it that the token itself becomes
       | desirable"?
        
         | capableweb wrote:
         | > And how do they plan to overcome the initial hurdle of
         | "getting enough people to use it that the token itself becomes
         | desirable"?
         | 
         | Tribler has been around for almost 15 years by now I think.
         | Don't think they suffer from having to get enough people to use
         | a token, just like torrents. People use Tribler already because
         | they like to use Tribler, and would probably remain doing so
         | even if there wasn't any cryptocurrency involved. Adding the
         | money stuff to Tribler was a later addition, if I recall
         | correctly.
        
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