Ask HN: What are you’re favorite P2P research papers?

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by r3trohack3r • 3 years ago

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I’m currently doing a deep dive on P2P tech and looking for a good compilation of foundational/inspirational P2P research papers and white papers. Here is my list so far:

* Kadmelia

* BitTorrent

* Bitcoin

* Secure Scuttlebutt

* IPFS

* Ethereum

* Pastry

* DAT

* Corda

* OceanStore

What do you think is missing from the list? What are your favorites and why?

jauntywundrkind• 3 years ago

Most work from the Tribler team I remember really enjoying & being excited for. Forget specifics now though. A lot of interesting advanced ways to use & enhance BitTorrent, since mid 2000's.

ETH_start• 3 years ago

Two P2P concepts that ultimately failed:

Lightning Network on Bitcoin: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

Plasma on Ethereum: https://plasma.io/plasma-deprecated.pdf

Interestingly, the Lightning Network and Plasma white papers share a co-author.

Why they're educational:

Plasma helped inspire a workable scalability solution on Ethereum: Rollups

As for the Lightning Network whitepaper: it introduces a really novel and elegant idea for P2P payments that is interesting in its own right.

Moreover, the LN's ultimate failure helps teach one about the practical UX requirements for a blockchain scalability technology to be successful.

Both white papers provide an insight into the tradeoffs inherent in scalability technologies.

Ask HN: What are you’re favorite P2P research papers?

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