Why hasn't Bittorrent been supplanted by an onchain protocol?

- Blockchain can be always online seeder of last resort
- Smart contracts can add economic incentive layer if needed

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Even IPFS? What's the practical upper bound there?

Performance and scalability 

File storage also is an issue bc decentralized storage isn’t as performant especially with large file sizes

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There have been plenty of attempts at it. I just don't think it's economically feasible or technically feasible.

i could see a world in which bittorrent is supplemented by an onchain protocol to prevent tracker censorship, but it feels like bittorrent and onchain storage are diff problem spaces

bittorrent ~> "anyone can store this if they want" while an onchain protocol ~> "someone must store this, and we must verify it and pay them to internalize storage costs" which, even ignoring perf overhead, feels like would work best for archiving (explicitly) economically valuable content for a known period of time