We’ll get into how, but first let’s talk a little more about Torrents. Magnet links bypass the reliance on HTTP even further, and we encourage publishers to use them. This provides faster data transfers, better network management, and no single choke points. The key advantage that BitTorrent has over HTTP is that it handles the heavy lifting – moving large sets of data – without reliance on a central server. But the volume and size of data is vastly larger on today’s Internet than when HTTP was first implemented in the 1990s. You see, HTTP is great if your web page is simple text and small images. One of the ways that it does this is by treating the BitTorrent protocol just like HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), so that visiting a Torrent is just like visiting a webpage. Project Maelstrom has a big mission: can we create a sustainable, neutral, people-powered, and content centric Internet?Īs our beta users will know, our peer-to-peer browser supports this mission by making the opening of content published as torrents very simple. In today’s post, team lead Rob Velasquez discusses one of the key components that makes BitTorrent work so efficiently. Currently in Beta, Project Maelstrom aims to help more of the Internet work the way BitTorrent works.
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