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Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
why the hell does that require a postgres database instance? has no one heard of sqlite?

"It's just `docker compose up` dude." that's not excuse for unnecessary complexity. software for a single person should be a single binary that anyone can run how they choose. If they want to use Docker, great. If they want to run it in a terminal, great. If they want to run it on a server, great. If they want to run it on their phone, great.

developers: avoid limiting people artificially like this. There is no way that Sqlite is insufficient for this.

2010. I remember those times. I was doing these things for science in 2008. Performance-wise, PEX was much faster than DHT. At least, in my setting.

This year, I was giving it as an assignment to students. Does not take much time with LLMs.

The article neglects to define "DHT" before using it.
> The BitTorrent community has responded to these trends by deploying decentralizing tracking systems based on distributed hash tables (DHTs).

No it doesn't. Before you try to correct me, the abstract never counts ;)

Downvote all you want, but a fact is a fact: The article doesn't define the abbreviation before using it.
I saw mention of Sybil's, hasn't this been patched effectively making techniques of quick discovery though many DHT nodes much more expensive and slower.

You would need a unique IP to overcome this per n nodes. That could be tens of thousands of IPs.