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Building a singleton P2P network for syncing Scuttlebutts? #48

Closed paulkernfeld closed 8 years ago

paulkernfeld commented 8 years ago

I am interested in building a singleton (e.g. Bitcoin, BitTorrent) P2P network that allows Scuttlebutts from different computers to be easily connected. This is in contrast to scuttlebot, which provides a very decentralized network that is explicitly designed not to be a singleton.

In order to build this network, a transport layer is necessary. BitTorrent seems like a good candidate for this because it's flexible, well-supported, already established, and takes care of some pesky details like NAT. If there's already something that does this, though, I would be happy to use that instead!

My idea is to build a BitTorrent extension that facilitates Scuttlebutt exchange between two nodes. bittorrent-protocol has an extension API that I believe could be used for this.

I am curious if anyone has ideas about better ways to implement this singleton P2P network

dominictarr commented 8 years ago

what sort of application do you want to build upon this? Can you paint me a bit of a picture of that so I can better understand what you are envisioning?

paulkernfeld commented 8 years ago

Yeah... this is too vague a description. I'll close this and open another issue with a better description.