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Well, I am thrilled to see it succeed. To me the most interesting part is IPFS acting as a CDN standard. That could make an impact, certainly.
by einrealist 11y ago
Well, I am thrilled to see it succeed. To me the most interesting part is IPFS acting as a CDN standard. That could make an impact, certainly.
- synctext 11y agoTheir incentive idea is realistic, it will work. My research team has build very similar operational systems over the past 8 years. "Decentralized credit mining in P2P systems", IFIP Networking 2015 "Towards a Peer-to-Peer Bandwidth Marketplace", 2014 "Bandwidth as a computer currency", news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/08/creating-a-computer-currency/, (PRE-Bitcoin), 2007 Their work is still early, essential thing about this type of approach is spam. You can often trick people into caching stuff. So not your typical DDoS anymore, but another resource eater. Plus there is the counterintuitive oversupply problem: <more citations to our own work> "Investment Strategies for Credit-Based P2P Communities"