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by the8472 3234 days ago
> but I quickly realised it's hard to add data after the initial publication

combining BEPs 46 and 50 enables rapid updates of torrents, but they are fairly new and there are no implementation designed with low latency in mind. Most bittorrent implementations focus on large amounts of data and throughput, so this use-case is not well served in practice even though the protocol could support it now.