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title: peer-to-peer
status: 🌱
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer>

## Projects
- [[Hypercore]]
- [[IPFS|InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)]]
- [[SSB|Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB)]]