Justin Sun’s BitTorrent to Acquire Esports Platform for New Streaming Ecosystem

Justin Sun’s BitTorrent to Acquire Esports Platform for New Streaming Ecosystem

BitTorrent is evolving into an ecosystem of decentralized storage, data protocols and content distribution, the firm says.


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