Feross Aboukhadijeh: Intro to BitTorrent and WebTorrent - JSConf.asia 2014

This talk will look at WebTorrent, a BitTorrent client for the browser that fully-interoperates with the regular BitTorrent network. WebTorrent uses WebRTC Data Channels and special "hybrid clients" to connect to the wider BitTorrent network. It’s insane to try this.

Feross is currently building WebTorrent, a streaming BitTorrent client for the browser, powered by WebRTC. Before that, he built PeerCDN, a peer-to-peer content delivery network to makes sites faster and cheaper.
He’s a graduate of Stanford and has worked at Quora, Facebook, and Intel and loves "mad science" projects!

JSConf.Asia is the JavaScript, web and mobile developer conference for Asia. Amara Sanctuary, Singapore - 20 + 21 November 2014.

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[ghostinplainsight]

Brilliant talk, amazing tech with so many possibilities! I especially love it when a presenter is so excited to get it out they lose a little composure, great to see the passion :-)

[angel-peralta]

Thank you for your work on WebTorrent. I am more than certain WebTorrent will revolutionize the Internet.

[technotux]

I've downloaded and installed that BitTorrent client webtorrent desktop
Do you know how to set the incoming connections port ??
i'm behind a router,
and the video playback is a little slow,
how can i know what port number does webtorrent desktop use so i may open the port in my router(using port forwarding) so more people can connect to me so the videos play better