• Peer exchange or PEX is a communications protocol that augments the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. It allows a group of users (or peers) that are collaborating...
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    Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally...
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  • computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the...
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  • chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Switch and Data provided peering and Internet exchange points in Atlanta; Dallas; Miami; New York City; Palo Alto;...
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  • the peer exchange protocol to discover peers without trackers; however, trackers are still often included with torrents to improve the speed of peer discovery...
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  • to exchange data on swarms directly without the need for a torrent file. In 2006, peer exchange functionality was added allowing clients to add peers based...
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  • Alternatively, users can exchange passwords or cryptographic keys with friends to form a decentralized network. Private peer-to-peer systems can be divided...
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  • as users, providers, lenders or borrowers in varied and evolving peer-to-peer exchange schemes. The usage of the term sharing by for-profit companies has...
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  • Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match...
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  • Peer-to-peer transactions (also referred to as person-to-person transactions, P2P transactions, or P2P payments) are electronic money transfers made from...
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  • Peer Health Exchange is a 501(c)(3) health education organization based in Oakland, California. The organization trains college student volunteers to teach...
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    efforts, including: direct technical assistance; facilitation of peer-to-peer exchange; and research, knowledge management & communications. C40 is also...
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  • files are not stored on a central server but are exchanged directly between users based on the peer-to-peer principle. The server part of the network is proprietary...
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  • The Auckland Peering Exchange (APE) is an Ethernet-based neutral peering point running over the CityLink metropolitan network in Auckland, New Zealand...
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  • BitTorrent client enables a user to exchange data as a peer in one or more swarms. Because BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer communications protocol that does...
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  • Peer-to-peer investing (P2PI) is the practice of investing money in notes issued by borrowers who are requesting a loan without going through a traditional...
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  • The Wellington Internet Exchange (WIX) is an Ethernet-based neutral peering point running over the CityLink metropolitan network in Wellington, New Zealand...
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  • since 1994. Also, Telegeography, PeeringDB and the Network Startup Resource Center. Additionally, there are Internet exchange point associations that publish...
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    PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, ActivityPub federated video platform. It can use peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual...
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    features are support for Mainline DHT, IPv6, HTTP seeds and μTorrent's peer exchange. libtorrent uses Boost, specifically Boost.Asio to gain its platform...
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  • JXTA (section Peer groups)
    converge as each rendezvous peer exchange a random subset of its RPV with other rendezvous peers from time to time. When an edge peer publishes an Advertisement...
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    Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay facilitates the connection among users of the peer-to-peer torrent protocol, which are able to contribute to the site through the...
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    Peer Gynt (/pɪər ˈɡɪnt/, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt, - ˈɡʏnt]) is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one...
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  • Internet. Today WAIX has some 100 peers and facilitates the transfer of over 50 gigabits per second. The exchange is operated by the Internet Association...
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  • most commonly used protocol for short message exchange outside SS7 networks. SMPP (Short Message Peer-to-Peer) was originally designed by Aldiscon, a small...
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    routes that include secondary (peer-to-peer) exchange. In the United States, a ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs began in 1988, when republican...
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  • Bitfinex (category Bitcoin exchanges)
    cryptocurrency exchange owned and operated by iFinex Inc, and is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Bitfinex was founded in 2012. It was originally a peer-to-peer...
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  • eXeem was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client using the BitTorrent protocol. eXeem was designed to replace the need for centralized trackers (servers...
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  • bitcoin exchanges, payment service providers and venture capital. Other services include mining pools, cloud mining, peer-to-peer lending, exchange-traded...
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    abstract: We describe a protocol that facilitates low friction peer-to-peer exchange of ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol is intended...
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