(pt 1/2)
I've been reading a lot of texts shilling UFR and I never payed much attention to them "just the usual Veeky Forums shill trying to get me to buy their coin so they'll make a profit" I thought.
However, as I was studying for my Computer Networks exam, while reading about the BitTorrent protocol, I came across this text that my professor wrote about the downsides of Unstructured P2P (fancy word for torrenting).
"Well, it's not always easy to find a way to make good incentives because at the end of the day most of the peers just want to get the files as quickly as possible, not caring much about the others involved. In a way it crosses technology with economics and sociology. "
Which basically means people don't seed because there is no incentive, and that got me thinking "shit, where have I heard something about torrenting incentives?" and it clicked, that coin that I always saw on the front page, that always talked about torrenting and shit, so I decided to read their whitepaper to see if it had any actual value or if it was some sort of long PnD and holy fuck...
I was and still am mesmerised about it, the whole technology, how they plan to solve the problem most people never thought much about but that has haunted all of us.
The lack of incentives to seed is causing torrents to die and slow speeds, which in turn is making the torrent community slowly die. All because people just don't see a point in helping other people out and are willing to pay a monthly fee to CDN giants like Netflix just because it's easier.
The other problem that's killing the torrenting scene is centralisation, by having centralised trackers searchers (like tpb or kat), we're making it easier to take our beloved services down and guess what, UFR is also planing on decentralising the whole thing by using an already known method known as Distributed Hash Table (DHR - Read about it, it's pretty interesting)