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I also think IPFS (non filecoin version) could prove useful in the future as well.
A post mentioning IPFS that hasn't been downvoted into the mantle? I'm impressed.
It seems that most people don't have any idea that it's not reliant upon blockchain.
Somebody asked the other day about hosting websites on cell phones. I mentioned that IPFS would be just about perfect for that and everyone got out their pitchforks.
What's IPFS in layman's terms? The Wikipedia is hard for me to follow lol
I don't know the details (checked it out once, before crypto integration), but it's like bittorrent. You seed your own files, people who download and keep the files also seed. I think I once tried out a prototype decentralized (crypto) ebay-like app, and all images were "hosted" on IPFS. (So, once the app downloaded the product image, it seeded it to other clients).
I believe all files are hashed, and something like DHT is used to lookup files by hash id.
basically like bittorrent but the entire network is just one swarm and blocks are deduplicated and everyone keeps the stuff they accessed for a while so peers near to them can fetch it from them
it also has a dht, a pubsub like system for fast message propagation and changeable content and is built to be future proof on the protocol level (everything is modular and self describing and can be swapped out)
oh and also everything can link to everything by its CID (content identifier)
IPFS is great, but also so difficult to get it right
Agreed, I'm building a p2p search engine for it
I’m already using it, but just for notes so there aren’t any measurable improvements over the traditional methods. It’s still cool to see it work though.