Quote from: Sledge on April 14, 2014, 07:48:25 PM

Could someone explain why it is preferable to seed a torrent of the blockchain rather than just run a bitcoin full node? I run a full node and it sends between 500GB to 1TB a month of data to at least 70-95 connected clients. Yes, I opened port 8333 on the firewall/router.

It is preferable to run a full node.

The torrent is a workaround until "headers first sync" is implemented, at which point, it will be faster to download from the P2P network.

Today, the torrent makes some client syncs faster, and also lessens the load on the P2P network. It is more useful for the P2P network to be used for distributing recent information.