NewAgePit_twitter> and is it possible to know who's hosting your data? [...] a social network centered around groups, and would like to reward users that host the a group's data
jimpick> the dat protocol lets you discover who is advertising on the swarm that they are a source for a particular key, and then you can use the dat protocol to ask them if they ‘have’ a particular file or whatever. So in theory, it might be possible
jimpick> I’m sort of interested in that just to audit my own backups i store on multiple machines
From irc (#dat)