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BitTorrent Chat Demystified

Posted by timothy on from the like-chat-roulette-but-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Can you really do group chat with no central server? BitTorrent's Patrick Williams has developed a new app that leverages a distributed architecture to eliminate the need for any servers — even to host a buddy list. He says magnet links are the key."

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  1. Magnet links by jmitchel!jmitchel.co · · Score: 4, Funny

    Magnet links, how do they work?

  2. IRC by wcoenen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good old IRC isn't centralized either! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit