JoyStream is a new BitTorrent client that incentivizes users to make file-sharing both faster and monetarily rewarding. Bitcoin micropayments, enabled by JoyStream’s built-in smart contracts, allow seeders to be paid as they contribute their bandwidth to the sharing of a given file.
Founder and developer Dr. Bendeho Mender demonstrates here: Mender writes: “The brilliant insight of the BitTorrent system was to mobilize the idle upstream bandwidth of peers which had a mutual interest in acquiring […]
