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I'm with you on this one. I had to Google all of this for a few minutes. This is my best interpretation below. I hope others will come in and correct my silly m
by da02 9y ago
I'm with you on this one. I had to Google all of this for a few minutes. This is my best interpretation below. I hope others will come in and correct my silly mistakes. (Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer and English is my 2nd language):
"So you know how people use BitTorrent to distribute big-budget Hollywood movies with occasional mediocre storylines? What if you could distribute your own data on a similar P2P network, but view it directly in a web browser (among other HTTP clients)? You suddenly turn your seed box into a "web server". Plus, you can stream videos on it too. So your home computer is not just a "web server", it can act as your own "Netflix" server to publish your home movies. And you could do it in a secure fashion. You would need a few protocols (eg IPFS), concepts (eg Merkle Trees), and some freely available software to make it practical, easy, and secure. These tutorials will show you how to get all of those things working together to publish & stream to the world."
Watch a demo of this @ 7:00 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ
- mxstbr 9y agoWhile he doesn't touch on IPFS iirc, this talk by Mathias Buus is what got me excited about decentralization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tf14VpeHlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tf14VpeHlE He does a great job explaining e.g. Merkle Trees in a practical manner that made me immediately go "Wait, I could use this for X and Y?!" Recommended watch!
- da02 9y agoThanks a lot for this. Any other recommendations for videos for other concepts or protocols?
- bringtheaction 9y agoThanks for the recommendation. Positively great talk and you are right it inspires a lot of usecases. Speaking as someone who had heard about Merkle trees but never looked into the details of what they were about, this talk was absolutely worth watching. Regarding IPFS there was a question at the end about the difference between IPFS and the stuff he talked about so it's briefly talked about by the speaker then.
- bitmadness 9y agoPretty good explanation mate! No need for that disclaimer ;)
- blunte 9y agoYou're hired! Well done.
- majani 9y agoWhile you've done well to filter the language, I still don't get the benefits to the consumer
- fooker 9y agoMost of the seedbox providers already support a good subset of this. You can view your files in a browser, you can stream with Plex. You also have full ssh and ftp access, but those are not reallt the points being made here.
- da02 9y agoThanks for pointing out all of this. But are some of the points being made that I missed?