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Actually the bittorrent DHT has been extended to support storing arbitrary data[1]. This extension is supported by uTorrent and libtorrent-rasterbar which constitute a majority of the bittorrent DHT nodes.

[1] http://www.libtorrent.org/dht_store.html




Up to 1000 bytes of signed data, actually. Pretty neat IMHO




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