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One downside is that Torrent doesn't really share blocks between torrents. So updating the torrent would result in a full download.

That being said the data is small so it probably isn't a big deal.

A better solution may be something like IPFS where with a rolling-checksum chunking algorithm you only need to download the changed parts of the list. You could even use IPNS to distribute updates for a fully decentralized setup.



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