Peer-to-peer lives or dies on bootstrapping
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just, it's hard to get everybody to, to seed and to participate. Right?
Episode 121: Lawful but Awful (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:09:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
P2P live streaming struggles because it's hard to get everyone to seed and participate. Like DHT networks, once something such as IPFS reaches critical mass you're good to go. Dave says the initial hump of getting enough peers online is the problem, and live streams would face it every time.
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Episode 121: Lawful but Awful (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:09:17 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
once you get to a critical mass something like IPFS you print it you can you can ride you're good to go. But then there's that initial thing of trying to get enough peers online and and bootstrapped
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