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by fro0116 2652 days ago
I'm a huge fan of the WebTorrent protocol too, and think it has potential to completely transform the content distribution paradigm on the web.

However, the JS implementation leaves much to be desired. It's a huge resource hog compared to native libraries like libtorrent and torrents often freeze for no apparent reason on faster connections. Development seems to have also stalled quite a bit in recent times.

At this point I'd be more confident betting on something like IPFS in the long term.