December 16, 2013 at 17:35Bitcoin trying to integrate with torrents
The idea is as follows: the author of some content, when creating a torrent file, gets the opportunity to specify his Bitcoin wallet, and those who download the torrent in their clients will see the corresponding icon, a click on which will thank the author with a certain amount in cryptocurrency. In fact, it’s just a matter of opening a wallet installed in the Bitcoin system or going to a site where you can copy the wallet number or scan its QR code for, in fact, subsequent payment.
Thus, the developers of the FrostWite torrent client try to use the popularity of Bitcoin, as well as organize the possibility of donate with the maximum degree of convenience - and, as you can see, the content does not have to be licensed, but simply popular, which should not only be liked by the authors of the original content, as well as those who would like to remain anonymous.
Technically, it's just about adding a record of this kind:
The developers’s plans include the possibility of adding some lightweight Bitcoin wallet directly to their client so that they do not have to perform additional gestures for payment. Moreover, it is planned to organize the process of monetization of content so that the author can indicate the number of people who have to pay the distribution before it can be downloaded really. How exactly the last opportunity will be realized is not said.
To ensure technical compatibility with existing torrent clients, the ability to add Bitcoin metadata to torrent files should become an official part of the BitTorrent protocol - this issue is already discussed on the BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal mailing lists .
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Thus, the developers of the FrostWite torrent client try to use the popularity of Bitcoin, as well as organize the possibility of donate with the maximum degree of convenience - and, as you can see, the content does not have to be licensed, but simply popular, which should not only be liked by the authors of the original content, as well as those who would like to remain anonymous.
Technically, it's just about adding a record of this kind:
{
'announce': 'http://tracker.site1.com/announce',
'info':
{
'name': 'directoryName',
'piece length': 262144,
'files':
[
{'path': ['111.txt'], 'length': 111},
{'path': ['222.txt'], 'length': 222}
],
'pieces': '6a8af7eda90ba9f851831073c48ea6b7b7e9feeb...8a43d9d965a47f75488d3fb47d2c586337a20b9f'
},
'bitcoin': 'bitcoin:175tWpb8K1S7NmH4Zx6rewF9WQrcZv245W?label=Content-Owner&message=support%20my%20content&amount=0.004'
}
The developers’s plans include the possibility of adding some lightweight Bitcoin wallet directly to their client so that they do not have to perform additional gestures for payment. Moreover, it is planned to organize the process of monetization of content so that the author can indicate the number of people who have to pay the distribution before it can be downloaded really. How exactly the last opportunity will be realized is not said.
To ensure technical compatibility with existing torrent clients, the ability to add Bitcoin metadata to torrent files should become an official part of the BitTorrent protocol - this issue is already discussed on the BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal mailing lists .
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