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Lime Wire
Last discussed Oct 12, 2026
A peer-to-peer file sharing application popular in the early 2000s for downloading music, videos, and other media.
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Henri Stern
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Praised: Cool distributed systems technology
vs: Early inspiration for crypto's potential
"When I got into crypto, what excited me was visions and lime wire and Kazaa and this was basically we've taken the very cool distributed systems research from the early 2000s."
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Dustin Poirier
mentioned
"that we had to download it illegally on like Lime Wire or something back then"
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Tom Bilyeu
critical
"If anybody's old enough, and I imagine many people listening right now are, to remember the LimeWire phase, it was better than having to spend money for every song, but it was worse than Apple Music."
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