BitTorrent Project WebTorrent Taps Bitcoin And Blockchain

Bitcoin and blockchain technology may be among the more obvious tools of evolving Internet decentralization, but BitTorrent, peer-to-peer file sharing, also portends major changes for commerce and industry.
Because bitcoin and blockchain technology use peer-to-peer protocols, they are often deployed in BitTorrent projects.
Direct File Sharing
WebTorrent, a streaming BitTorrent client for the browser, powered by WebRTC (web real-time communication), allows users to share files directly from their browser, without having to install or configure anything.
‘WebTorrent is just like BitTorrent, except it works in the browser,’ Feross Aboukhadijeh, the 25-year-old programmer who is building WebTorrent, told CCN. He added:
So you can think of the relationship between WebTorrent and blockchains the same as you think of BitTorrent and blockchains. Basically, the two P2P technologies are often complementary, as we’ve seen in Web2Web (a WebTorrent project), and other projects like it. For example, ZeroNet uses BitTorrent and bitcoin to create free and uncensorable websites.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 11/10/2016.