Many have been waiting for a TON Torrent equivalent since the introduction of TON Storage, and now it's here!
A developer nicknamed xssnick posted a repository with TON Torrent, downloadable on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
TON Torrent allows you to download files from a home Internet connection, as long as they are on static IP address nodes.
To download a file, open the application, click "+Add" and enter the bagID, usually found on the @firsttontracker forum or the torrentracker.ton website (requires the TON Proxy browser extension).
For example, you can download a documentary about Pavel Durov (2021) by entering this bagID:
E5319D0D750CA9A1C5DE97D869AC7D5904A605313175CE038151C496E5E7F705Recently, one of the core developers of Telegram, Anatoly Makosov (Tolya Yanot), shared a story with a bagID containing photos of the Gateway conference in Dubai:
23AD8E74CAF9A435F07DD8829535652C2FA0B32B7BB28D73BFE9A836E15EA1BBTo upload a file, click the "Create" button, write the name of the distribution and specify the path to the folder where the file/files are located.
To share it, copy the bagID, or export the file in the .tonbag format.
You no longer have to log into the cloud in order to upload files. All you need to do is keep them on your PC so that your friends can download them in just a couple of clicks.
This is a separate branch of the Web3 ecosystem, and has its own history, and has been in demand since its inception. Now, thankfully, its services have become more accessible, simpler and safer.
TON Storage has the potential to become a major storage utility for the massive amounts of data from TON users, and even Telegram, but this is still yet to come.
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