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You won't have to sit on the retrieval path with Filecoin. Nodes participating in the retrieval market will probably simply expose a Filecoin-enabled version of
by lgierth 9y ago
You won't have to sit on the retrieval path with Filecoin. Nodes participating in the retrieval market will probably simply expose a Filecoin-enabled version of the HTTP-to-IPFS gateway. The v2 paper will have more details very soon.
Interesting to note is also that, if you want to deliver content yourself, you can just run IPFS nodes on their own, without Filecoin. IPFS has been working fine for the past two years.
- xur17 9y agoI can't wait to try this out. Sounds very interesting.
- XorNot 9y agoIPFS works but its not really fine - trying to use it on a small scale (home internet connections) has proven completely impossible for me. It reliably saturates my upload despite not actually serving any content - the DHT connection overhead in every mode is just too high. This would be fine, but the whole point is decentralized internet - if I can't have a node running at home, or more specifically a node running on pretty much every device I have, its not practical.
- lgierth 9y agoYeah I feel you, the management overhead is a big pain for many people at the moment, ourselves included. There's a couple of improvements to this coming in the next two months: 1) a new transport (QUIC) which has less overhead, 2) smarter connection handling which closes unneccessary connections earlier, 3) more efficient announcements of who-has-what.