[Idea] p2p downloads

I see the costs of S3 are increasing as the project gains more ground.
I know you can setup a nix-store server and your own caches.

However, I wondered if anyone has thought of using BitTorrent?

Obviously, you would have to pre-fetch whatever you require
because you couldn’t leave a build waiting.

I wonder if this could ease some of the costs?

#Just_an_Idea

Yes, this idea has been emitted before.

It seems that some are even ready to make it happen Peer-to-peer binary cache RFC/working group/poll .

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