[rakoo]

The base bittorrent protocol basically hasn't changed in more than a decade. Innovation happened at the periphery, to allow peers to discover themselves (pex, dht), to improve bandwidth management (utp), and now even to scrape in a decentralized way. There is a new version of the core protocol that solves many problems but unfortunately it's safe to say that no one will pick up on it.

p2p is indeed exploding, but it's a field that is plagued with money-grabbing schemes and so many pipe dreams only a professional plumber can conceive them. Bittorrent (and its extensions!) has stood the test of time as a protocol that does what it says on the tin and doesn't need "improvements"