The new version of Bit Torrent supports tracker-less publishing. While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia Distributed Hashtable or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent.

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