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What’s this updatable BitTorrent protocol? I wished for something like this years ago as an auto-updating torrent for downloading Wikipedia with live (or daily

• sandworm101 1y ago
  https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html They were called mutable torrents. A private key would allow the originator to push out updates via dhts.
  • beeflet 1y ago
    this is really neat. I've been looking for this sort of functionality with IPNS, but it seems like bittorrent could be better. Do clients implement this yet?
    • sandworm101 1y ago
      It has been 15+ years since i looked into it. I do remember using it with transmission so it may be out there already.