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@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ The two are evolving together; the protocol is not to be considered
 stable until syncthing 1.0 is released, at which point it is locked down
 for incompatible changes.
 
-Syncthing does not use the BitTorrent protocol. The reasons for this are
-1) we don't know if BitTorrent Sync does either, so there's nothing to
-be compatible with, 2) BitTorrent includes a lot of functionality for
-making sure large swarms of selfish agents behave and somehow work
-towards a common goal. Here we have a much smaller swarm of cooperative
-agents and a simpler approach will suffice.
-
 Getting Started
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