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While I prize anything that may help go distributed for our freedom and safety I'm not much convinced by IPFS (IMVHO a nearly-unusable monster) and while I comp
by xte 8y ago
While I prize anything that may help go distributed for our freedom and safety I'm not much convinced by IPFS (IMVHO a nearly-unusable monster) and while I comprehend many of it's reasons I prefer a network that distribute contents to any peer so it basically give a guarantee of existence of contents if there are enough peers.
- miguelrochefort 8y agoWhat's the incentive to host this content?
- xte 8y agoBeing a society, free, not tied to few big guys, for instance with the best "backup" possible for our valuable data. Apart of that if you want a distributed network (and we desperately need it) you can choose to participate or not if it's architectural designed for that...
- Proven 8y agoAt scale and in the medium term, none. There is (was, maybe, don't follow it that closely) a "coin" ICO by the IPFS author that would supposedly monetize and incentivize. Sounds shitty if you ask me. There already are some storage based ICOs such as Storj, and all suck.