Eh I didn't really do any work, it's just a design right now, but I think it's a nice one. If any archive team wants to work with me on this, I'd be happy to make it a reality so we have a nice FOSS system for distributed, volunteer-led backups.
(ia source of truth, storage system of last resort -> item index -> torrent index -> global torrent swarm)
https://gist.github.com/skorokithakis/68984ef699437c5129660d...