With webtorrent you need to keep a tab open seeding the file?
AFAIK — yes, until WebRTC Data Channel is supported in SharedWorkers. The issue was discussed at least three years ago, and I believe there will be some progress soon.
Cool. What makes Webtorrent superior to ipfs? In your opinion
WebTerront is basically a BitTorrent — a battle-tested protocol with almost two decades of history. IPFS is mostly an overhyped proof of concept.
More to that, IPFS will most likely be tied to Filecoin — a monetization layer that is foreign to Bitcoin (cash). With BitTorrent we can have monetization over our own layer.
