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Doesn't that saturate Tor? Bittorrent via Tor was always highly discouraged to not overload the network with all the p2p traffic and IPFS is a very similar technique.

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> Doesn't that saturate Tor? No, that's a stupid myth that needs to die. The tor network is nowhere near the advertised bandwidth capacity: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html

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https://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/ links to TODO which says "We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;" and links to a dead page "Why Tor is slow". I googled that and found https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Why_is_Tor_slow#Misuse_of_the_To... and https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/slow/index... which sound like they were both sourced from that defunct page.

So, if you call it a stupid myth, please provide some credible proof. The Tor developers as well as the maintainers of two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you.

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> We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;"

12 year old blog post. Both the tor network and internet as a whole are completely different.

> two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you

Both of those pages have a citation that says "it is bad.... just cause it is okay!"

The credible evidence is in my original comment, that shows hundreds of gigabits being underutilized on the network.