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by viraptor 1865 days ago
There is a big difference in that you can reference a single file/directory from a tree using the IPFS hash, which I don't believe it's possible in BitTorrent (v1). (it's not the same as torrent's partial download) As a side effect this does deduplication so multiple IPFS trees can share the same file improving availability (and provide cheap tree updates)