Show HN: Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent
"Torrenting has an incentivization problem. There is sometimes a real lack of incentive to seed a file, especially for obscure files where you may only find a single digit number of people that have it. Adding monetary incentives to the existing torrenting structure should prove to be extremely interesting."<p>In my opinion, if torrenting meant one needs to pay for download, we would never have heard about torrents. This might give people more incentive to seed, but I'd never use it for what I use torrents - get stuff for free or reduce the load of FOSS servers.<p>To me it's the usual crypto thing - very cool from a technological perspective, not useful in real life.<p>edit: typos