BitTorrent client package and utilities in Go

I wonder if it would be easier building an open source version of btsync 1.4 as 2.0 seems to be a lot more complicated?

Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing, supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?

I also have very little low-level bittorrent experience, but the static nature of .torrent files would be tricky. You'd need some sort of snapshotting diffs to convert to .torrent equivalents at regular intervals, right?

As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare.

Basically you can use a torrent to transfer content, but you need to transfer the new torrent itself some other way; I use bittorrent's extension capabilities to do that.

What server portion? The tracker?

Have a look at https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya

TF run an article about it fairly recently. http://torrentfreak.com/private-anime-torrent-tracker-became...

I posted it here on HN before but it got no interest.