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Kiro on Sept 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web2Web Bootstrap

Why do you need to involve torrents? Why can't the whole site live on the blockchain?

throwaway1974 on Sept 15, 2016 [–]

Bitcoin blockchain can only store very small amounts of extra data with each transaction.

Kiro on Sept 15, 2016 | [–]

Bitcoin, yes, but it works on other blockchains made for this purpose.

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