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category: daemon
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title: Add Support for BitTorrent
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award: 4000
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status: available
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date: '2016-07-01'
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---
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Add support for the BitTorrent protocol to [`lbry`](https://github.com/lbry).
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The LBRY blockchain supports storing metadata about media content. A simplified, sample entry looks like:
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```
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title: "What is LBRY?",
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language: "en",
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description: "What is LBRY? An introduction with Alex Tabarrok",
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author: "Samuel Bryan",
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sources: {
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lbry_sd_hash : "d5169241150022f996fa7cd6a9a1c421937276a3275eb912790bd07ba7aec1fac5fd45431d226b8fb402691e79aeb24b"
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}
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```
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The `sources` field is designed to be extended and support resolution to multiple protocols. To complete this the LBRY daemon must be modified to:
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- Support the BitTorrent protocol via `python-libtorrent` or similar.
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- Read `btih` as a source key and use this key to access the data via BitTorrent when requested
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- Probably a lot more stuff! |