GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
Hi! I'm the GitTorrent author. It feels strange to have it show up on the front page whenever GitHub does something bad, more than five years later.<p>Bitcoin and BitTorrent v1 were plausible substrates in 2015, but no longer. I think Radicle (<a href="https://radicle.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.xyz</a>) is the project most deserving of attention at the moment.<p>The hardest thing about such a project is economic: how do you handle issue/comment spammers? Or someone creating as many accounts as they can? How do you incentivize someone to mirror your repo? Or to build you a delta to satisfy your `git pull`, without making the network fall over when someone realizes they can ask you to spend infinite CPU building packfiles for them? And what happens when someone forgets their password or loses their private key? This space was a humbling experience in the necessity of incentive alignment for me.