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		KirillPanov on Oct 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 First it needs to support BEP44 "Mutable DHT", which is arguably a much more useful feature than mutable torrents. It is also a much simpler feature. http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html

MayeulC on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

I agree that's a dependency, but I am not sure how much more useful it would be comparatively?

contravariant on Oct 7, 2022 | [–]

Pretty sure it gets you most of the way there by simply putting a mutable magnet URI in DHT. The rest is just a clever way of reusing already downloaded blocks.

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