well pls resurrect the struck my lightning torrent because its taking forever to download :(
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Submitted 1 month ago by fantawurstwasser@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I’ve resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
And if there is. Please seed that.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
paying in crypto is nice for this reason
glimse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What reason are you referring to?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I imagine the part in the article where OPP destroyed the vps and cancelled the domain because he realized he paid for the vps with his credit card?
kipo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Crypto is a scam.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
Breaking news! Criminals use crypto, and people get scammed. This happens as well with fiat, so that must surely mean fiat is a scam!
Flawless logic, really. You people impress me with your thinking.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Your existence is a scam.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Crypto is not a scam, it’s just plain stupid.
The entire idea behind it is what a third grader might come up with and think it’s a great idea. It’s not.
It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else. Can you imagine doing billions of transactions per day this way? It is extremely inefficient and yes, this is one of the reasons why even the relatively low amount of transactions that Bitcoin processes costs more electricity than a small modern country.
It’s in a way comparable to a cpu doing 6+7 in a single CPU cycle whilst AI needs to burn down a forest to answer the same question
Crypto is stupid.
I get what its trying to replace and i agree that the current system sucks as well for a long list of reasons, but crypto is NOT the solution. A fundamentally different system must be designed to be able to solve the issues that crypto is trying to solve
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
You don’t understand how crypto works it seems
It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else
That’s misleading. Your wallet scans blocks for transactions that goes to your wallet, but this is super fast for many cryptocurrencies. Wallets usually sync in seconds.
this is one of the reasons why even the relatively low amount of transactions that Bitcoin processes costs more electricity than a small modern country.
No. The main reason is block size and block emission period. Also, you’re completely forgetting the fact that non Proof Of Work cryptocurrencies exist, and have close to 0 electricity cost
The entire idea behind it is what a third grader might come up with and think it’s a great idea. It’s not.
If they do they’re pretty much a fucking genius for their age
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else.
wat?
wallets don’t process any transactions other than yours. and eve then, wallets do the easy work.
Buske@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too bad the rich control it now.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
If you mean through regulation, yes, partly
If you mean they hold most of it and thus have a total decision power, then I must disagree
miridius@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes, doing illegal things secretly is a valid use case for crypto. So far, it’s also the only one
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 5 weeks ago
What about donating money to people online without giving away your name and privacy? What about avoiding scams for P2P transactions? What about boycotting the banking system? What about avoiding international payment fees?
These all seem valid use cases to me
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance, it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot of sense. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month ago
2 years ago I talked about the core problem with federated services was the abismal scale ability.
I essentially got ridiculed.
And here we are, with incredibly predictable scaling problems.
If we refuse to acknowledge problems till they become critical, we will never grow past a blip on the corner of the internet.
dil@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Yeah, volunteer moderation is also an issue, any decent ppl doing it get burnt out if they get an influx of ppl and quit also like lemm.ee
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
That’s the kind of thing that would be cool to do actually, but I’m not server savy enough to make a server that won’t die easily under attacks
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.
evidences@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Orphaned domains like this are interesting, there was a defcon talk, I think, where the presenter bought a bunch of blacklisted orphaned domains just to see if anything would try and connect to them. They got hit with so many botnet clients trying to phone home.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah those orphaned domains are a goldmine for security researchers, there was a similar talk at blackhat where they showed how expired domains from major companies still recieved auth tokens and sensitive data for months after expiry.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please post a link if you’re able, that sounds like a very interesting watch.