paying in crypto is nice for this reason
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Submitted 19 hours ago by fantawurstwasser@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
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ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 17 hours ago
kipo@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Crypto is a scam.
Psythik@lemm.ee 28 minutes ago
Your existence is a scam.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 hours 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.
glimse@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
What reason are you referring to?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 14 hours 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?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 hours 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
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 56 minutes 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 11 hours ago
Too bad the rich control it now.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 hours 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
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
well pls resurrect the struck my lightning torrent because its taking forever to download :(
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 16 hours 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 11 hours ago
And if there is. Please seed that.
ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 17 hours 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 19 hours 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 18 hours 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 15 hours 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 10 hours ago
Please post a link if you’re able, that sounds like a very interesting watch.