there are multiple differences between the design of blossom and the design of bittorrent. but the most important are probably:
- Responsibility model: BitTorrent relies on random volunteers to keep your personal content alive forever. Blossom lets you take responsibility by choosing and paying for your own hosting providers.
- Content survival: Your vacation photos work great on BitTorrent if millions of people want to seed them (they don't). Personal content dies when seeders lose interest. Blossom keeps your content available as long as you maintain your servers.
- Economic sustainability: BitTorrent depends on altruism at scale. Blossom uses proven hosting economics - you pay for what you need.
BitTorrent has existed for 20+ years but zero Nostr clients use it or considered using it for media hosting. Blossom is new and already has multiple clients and servers adopting it. what is the reason for that in your opinion? they are not familiar with bitorrent?
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Stopped reading at "responsibility model"
BitTorrent seedboxes exist
Learn to fact check your AI or rely on your own knowledge if research is too hard