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0 pointslillecarl4y ago0 comments

When downloading content using a magnet link downloads are usually quite slow started, while torrent files usually start directly. It's not a fair comparison since the torrents are from a private tracker with high quality peers, but it's noticeable that the DHT stuff is slower. Not sure how cjdns solves that.

Will the network be faster the more people join it?

Is centralized infra inevitable for fast things because of all assumptions and insight a centralized provider can use? BTC is also slow, I don't know of any cryptocurrency that can provide VISA transaction volumes, even if they use more power than some countries alone.

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Taek4y ago

Cryptocurrency is different from storage because cryptocurrency needs to provide global consistency guarantees.

Skynet is a decentralized network with lookup times that have a p50 TTFB of under 200ms. It achieves this by looking things up directly on hosts rather than routing through a DHT. There's a bit of overhead to accomplish this (around 200kb of extra bandwidth per lookup), but for a smooth web experience that tradeoff is more than worthwhile.

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