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Nothing that involves authoritative state of data can be decentralized. Ultimately something is a source of truth. Who decides what the torrent data is? Congratulations, your system is now centralized.
Decentralized systems are anarchist mastubatory fantasy, distributed systems are what runs the world.
I believe you still have no idea how BitTorrent protocol works if you reply with such a comment.
What torrent data? I'm not talking about any data! I'm talking about decentralized protocols. Not the data that goes over it.