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> They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol. How popular? Who uses it?

by VMG 9y ago

mungoid 9y ago
I don't know much about it but they have 8.5k stars on github so it seems fairly popular.
- samastur 9y ago
  I star everything I find interesting so I may find it later, but in reality I did this maybe a handful of times which makes my stars ~99% meaningless. Not saying everyone does this, but I doubt my behaviour is rare and I wouldn't read too much into github stars as they are too cheap to create. Look for actual use.
  - hobofan 9y ago
    Yup, can confirm. The most stared project I helped create has +5k stars from hitting the HN frontpage a few times, and there are very few actual users (by now probably none). IPFS has compared to that much healthier growth, and for the number of stars they have a pretty decent userbase from what I can gather.
nannal 9y ago
I use it, I pin files in exchange for bitcoin, like filecoin only without the vapourware. My biggest client at the minute is dtube.video but there are audio "clones" and document based clones in development that I'm aware of too.
alwillis 9y ago
The Filecoin Primer states that over 5 billion files are stored on IPFS, with over 500 GB per day flowing through the HTTP-to-IPFS gateway: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWimYyZHzChb35EYojGduWHBdhf9SD5NHqf8MjZ4n3Qrr/Filecoin-Primer.7-25.pdf https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWimYyZHzChb35EYojGduWHBdhf9SD5NHqf8Mj... Especially for a new a fairly new protocol, I'd say IPFS is popular.
- wils1245 9y ago
  500 GB a day doesn't sound like the kind of adoption that justifies a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars though.
  - alwillis 9y ago
    That's not what the ICO was about; with IPFS and Filecoin, a very lucrative, decentralized storage market is likely on its way. Instead of proof of work mining that burns tons of electricity, storing and distributing files will become a new kind of useful mining. That's a big deal.

> They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol. How popular? Who uses it?

by VMG 9y ago

> They have already built out IPFS -- a popular decentralized file sharing protocol. How popular? Who uses it?

mungoid 9y ago

I don't know much about it but they have 8.5k stars on github so it seems fairly popular.

samastur 9y ago
I star everything I find interesting so I may find it later, but in reality I did this maybe a handful of times which makes my stars ~99% meaningless. Not saying everyone does this, but I doubt my behaviour is rare and I wouldn't read too much into github stars as they are too cheap to create. Look for actual use.
- hobofan 9y ago
  Yup, can confirm. The most stared project I helped create has +5k stars from hitting the HN frontpage a few times, and there are very few actual users (by now probably none). IPFS has compared to that much healthier growth, and for the number of stars they have a pretty decent userbase from what I can gather.

nannal 9y ago

I use it, I pin files in exchange for bitcoin, like filecoin only without the vapourware. My biggest client at the minute is dtube.video but there are audio "clones" and document based clones in development that I'm aware of too.

alwillis 9y ago

The Filecoin Primer states that over 5 billion files are stored on IPFS, with over 500 GB per day flowing through the HTTP-to-IPFS gateway: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWimYyZHzChb35EYojGduWHBdhf9SD5NHqf8MjZ4n3Qrr/Filecoin-Primer.7-25.pdf https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWimYyZHzChb35EYojGduWHBdhf9SD5NHqf8Mj... Especially for a new a fairly new protocol, I'd say IPFS is popular.

wils1245 9y ago
500 GB a day doesn't sound like the kind of adoption that justifies a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars though.
- alwillis 9y ago
  That's not what the ICO was about; with IPFS and Filecoin, a very lucrative, decentralized storage market is likely on its way. Instead of proof of work mining that burns tons of electricity, storing and distributing files will become a new kind of useful mining. That's a big deal.