P2p

• P2P Networks: BitTorrent's Incentives, IPFS's Merkle DAGs, and the Decentralized Web Vision · 2026-01-18

  From tit-for-tat choking algorithms to content-addressed Merkle DAGs — how BitTorrent and IPFS engineered the two most successful decentralized protocols in internet history.

• Distributed Hash Tables: Chord, Pastry, Kademlia, and the Structured Overlay Revolution · 2025-12-08

  How consistent hashing, finger tables, prefix-based routing, and the XOR metric turned P2P networks from unscalable floods into efficient, provably correct structured overlays.