- BlockTorrent: The famous algorithm which BitTorrent uses for SHARING BIG FILES. Which you probably thought Bitcoin *also* uses for SHARING NEW BLOCKS (which are also getting kinda BIG). But Bitcoin *doesn't* torrent *new* blocks (while relaying). It only torrents *old* blocks (while sync-ing). Why? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-September/011176.html 24 comments btc
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