A Tribler Giga channel can scale to billions of torrents (#3971) and is shared in the network, however the health of the torrent (being a dynamic value) is not included in the channel and is not propagated. This leads to having access to large number of torrents but without information if it is alive or not. So, we need a mechanism to share the health of the torrents in the Giga channel so popular content gets to the surface so users can browse through them.

To find out the popularity of the torrents in the Giga channel and to dissiminate the popular torrents in the network, we start with a simple approach based on random selections.

Some key points:

• Do DHT health check for a random torrent every 4 mins ?? No need to store the metainfo.
• Do only weekly update of the torrent
• Gossip daily top 5 and random 5 torrents that you have checked and are alive.

After the first deployment, we will know how well the random approach works and the optimizations can follow.