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Mutable torrents can be used for distributing a tracker’s metadata corpus using BitTorrent:

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306106

https://static.usenix.org/events/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wol...

This is cool, but it doesn't address the user currency tracking that all private trackers have (so torrents reliably get seeded).

The problem of how to solve how much currency each pseudonym has, and allows transactions between them, with no central intermediary or point of failure, is solved by a cryptocurrency.

What about the economics of this "proof of seeding" scheme?

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