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daemon Add Support for BitTorrent 4000 available 2016-07-01

Add support for the BitTorrent protocol to lbry.

The LBRY blockchain supports storing metadata about media content. A simplified, sample entry looks like:

title: "What is LBRY?",
language: "en",
description: "What is LBRY? An introduction with Alex Tabarrok",
author: "Samuel Bryan",
sources: {
  lbry_sd_hash : "d5169241150022f996fa7cd6a9a1c421937276a3275eb912790bd07ba7aec1fac5fd45431d226b8fb402691e79aeb24b"
}

The sources field is designed to be extended and support resolution to multiple protocols. To complete this the LBRY daemon must be modified to:

  • Support the BitTorrent protocol via python-libtorrent or similar.
  • Read btih as a source key and use this key to access the data via BitTorrent when requested
  • Probably a lot more stuff!