I like it!

My co-workers and I tried to get magnet links implemented into Dogecoin years ago, we had the code, we were paying for the implementation, but their community shot it down pretty harsh as evidenced on reddit. That was the end of our involvement with Dogecoin (no more meme's 4 u!). ;)

It was implemented on the Feathercoin blockchain however and we always thought it was a great idea and were surprised no one else was doing it. I think a few crypto's have come along since that have implemented something similar. But the Link Protocol by Kevlar (Travis Savo) was the first one to do it. The Link Protocol also has a voting mechanism built in where users can pay to vote up the next feature added. It is very cool.

https://github.com/TuckFheman/Link

From my personal experience with magnet links on a blockchain what you'll run into quickly is the, "but teh child pr0n!", "but illegal content!", crowd who think it will reflect poorly on the blockchain as a whole, despite the fact that you're simply storing a magnet link, not the content.

So we showed them that there were other legitimate uses, like storing magnet links to the latest version of the client, the US Constitution and other worthwhile things that a government could never take down and would always be available; as long as someone was seeding.

That didn't matter to most others and they wanted nothing to do with it because they could not get over the possible bad light it might shed on the almighty blockchain. OK, I'm done with my stroll down memory lane. Back to what you're discussing. :)