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It would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.

My guess is that you don't have much control over which chunks of data you can request over IPFS compared to BitTorrent.

If I’m reading this correctly, file blocks in ipfs are individually addressable

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/how-ipfs-works/#directed-acycl...

Perhaps IPFS implementations do a worse job of prioritizing rarely-seen blocks when seeding content.

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