Tribler v7.14.0 released (changes and downloads at
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases).
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TSTATEDIR=.' environment variable notwithstanding) Issue about portability remains open:
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3904.
Also, there's this very old thread at PA.com:
https://portableapps.com/node/13543.
Tribler made news recently on account of its research developments:
The Tribler client has been around for more nearly a decade already, and during that time it’s developed into the only truly decentralized BitTorrent client out there. Even if all torrent sites were shut down today, Tribler users would still be able to find and add new content. But the researchers want more. One of the key problems with BitTorrent is the lack of anonymity. Without a VPN or proxy all downloads can easily be traced back to an individual internet connection. The Tribler team hopes to fix this problem with a built-in Tor network...
Tribler has even loftier goals, as stated by its wiki:
Tribler is a Bittorrent-compatible alternative to Youtube. It is designed to protect your privacy, build a web-of-trust, be attack-resilient, and reward content creators directly. We are building a micro-economy without banks, without advertisers, and without any government. Together with Harvard University, the Tribler team deployed one of the first fully distributed ledgers in August 2007, see BBC News coverge and a New Scientist article. In coming years we will further expand our micro-economy based on bandwidth tokens. We aim to become the key place where audiences find their torrents, creative talents get discovered, and artists get financial rewards from their fans. Tribler is the place where 100 percent of the money goes to artists and the people that run the infrastructure. Our mission: re-inventing media and money.
Open projects for new TUDelft master thesis students: Tor-like streaming, self-sovereign identity and authentication on Android, relevance ranking of search results (+swarm popularity), perfect metadata through distributed crowdsourcing, self-reinforcing trust, and perfect network connectivity using NAT/Firewall traversal. Speculative projects with long-term focus: prediction market for climate change. A market designed against frontrunners and high-frequency trading abusers in general.
Social media today is obsessed with profit, filled with advertisements, overflowing with falsehoods, and infested with fake news. We're trying to fix these hard problems in a unique way: by building trust. Our audacious ambition is a clean-slate re-creation of The Internet itself with foundations of trust. Craiglist and eBay showed us in 1995 that trustworthy trade was possible online. Uber, Etsy, and AirBnB show that entire industries can be disrupted by a single platform with a natural monopoly. For the past 18 years we have built and deployed platforms to create trust.
