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I'm still waiting for WebTorrent to be implemented in more clients (including libtorrent, which AFAIK underlies Picotorrent). I'd love to be able to quickly deploy headless WebTorrent video seeds, especially if they were sequence-aware (sending chunks in order, possibly incl. MPEG DASH format, though that is patented somehow); and maybe commodity BitTorrent + WebTorrent CDNs could become commonplace.

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I'm a huge fan of the WebTorrent protocol too, and think it has potential to completely transform the content distribution paradigm on the web.

However, the JS implementation leaves much to be desired. It's a huge resource hog compared to native libraries like libtorrent and torrents often freeze for no apparent reason on faster connections. Development seems to have also stalled quite a bit in recent times.

At this point I'd be more confident betting on something like IPFS in the long term.

I'm not too sure about the underlying technologies, but something like BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com ?

From what I understand it uses torrents to serve videos, where each viewer help seed the content for other viewers. There are limitations but it seems progress is being made.

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