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One thing which both protocols use is peer discovery and bootstrapping.

Bitcoin full node implementation used by most nodes (Bitcoin Core) earlier used IRC in which IRC channels would be used to get IP addresses of nodes earlier. It uses DNS seeds right now and BitTorrent uses DHT serversnodes.

There is not much difference in the concept.

One thing which both protocols use is peer discovery and bootstrapping.

Bitcoin full node implementation used by most nodes (Bitcoin Core) earlier used IRC in which IRC channels would be used to get IP addresses of nodes. It uses DNS seeds right now and BitTorrent uses DHT servers.

One thing which both protocols use is peer discovery and bootstrapping.

Bitcoin full node implementation used by most nodes (Bitcoin Core) used IRC channels to get IP addresses of nodes earlier. It uses DNS seeds right now and BitTorrent uses DHT nodes.

There is not much difference in the concept.

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user103136
user103136

One thing which both protocols use is peer discovery and bootstrapping.

Bitcoin full node implementation used by most nodes (Bitcoin Core) earlier used IRC in which IRC channels would be used to get IP addresses of nodes. It uses DNS seeds right now and BitTorrent uses DHT servers.