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by IsmaOlvey 3407 days ago
And here are the actually interesting parts:

https://docs.datproject.org/how-dat-works

https://github.com/datproject/docs/blob/master/docs/hyperdri...

Seems very similar to BitTorrent, but without trackers, with Content Defined Chunking (instead of Fixed Size Chunking) and utilizing Merkle trees + public key cryptography to enable append-only operations on shared data sets (rather than 'read-only once published').

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Thanks for the links, here are a few more you may find interesting:

In progress paper - https://github.com/datproject/docs/blob/master/papers/dat-pa...

Dat protocol site - https://www.datprotocol.com/