BitTorrent v2
I make P2P tools too. [0] Let me tell you this: Bittorrent is one of the few things in the space that actually ... works.<p>It works not in the sense that there is a white paper that should work. Not in the sense that there are a few company-made swarms hosted on industrial servers that keep everyone up and alive, so that the thing gives the impression the 'P2P' network does work. Not in the sense that there is a very-well oiled marketing machinery talking about Web 3.0 that allows its founder to go on TechCrunch and talk about the upcoming distributed paradise.<p>Bittorrent works in the way you install it into your computer and it does something for you. And for that alone, it has my immense respect and attention.<p>It's a tool that doesn't pitch that it's a P2P tool - it doesn't try to convince you with sob stories about how using P2P helps fight against the big bad evil web. Instead, you use it because it's genuinely the best at what it does: it being P2P is not a selling point, it's just how it happens to work, and that is exactly what it should be.<p>That is something all P2P developers should aspire towards.<p>[0] Aether P2P: <a href="https://getaether.net" rel="nofollow">https://getaether.net</a>