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Swarm ↔ group of Peers

References​

  1. .torrent ↔ metadata file to describe torrent content (name, size, checksum), Tracker locations to connect to Swarm

  2. Peer ↔ Bittorrent Client instance connect to Swarm || user to connect to P2P

  3. Seed ↔ Peer with complete Torrent & upload Pieces to Swarm

  4. LSD ↔ (mechanism) to discover Peers Announce to Swarm via HTTP over UDP-multicast

  5. Announce ↔ to send GET request to Tracker to announce presence to Swarm

  6. Bittorrent ↔ P2P Network Protocol to distribute files over decentralized Swarm