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They needed to compensate providers of storage for IPFS. The challenge is how to prove that a provider has your block and that they aren't double dipping, ie cl
by imglorp 7y ago
They needed to compensate providers of storage for IPFS. The challenge is how to prove that a provider has your block and that they aren't double dipping, ie claiming redundancy when they only are storing one copy.
- Ygg2 7y agoThat's pretty neat. I wonder if similar could be achieved for processing power. Distribted hosting ftw.
- Arathorn 7y agothat's what https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/ is trying to do.
- momack2 7y agoExactly. IPFS has millions of end users and hundreds of apps storing data on the decentralized network, creating demand for decentralized persistence of that data. Current solution is to either run your own IPFS node or pay a pinning service to run a node persisting your IPFS data for you - but even better to have a highly resilient marketplace of storage nodes that can store redundant copies!
- darkcha0s 7y agoWhere are you getting “millions of end users” from? A quick google search doesn’t return anything, and that seems a lot for a relatively unknown project
- NickBusey 7y agoIPFS is by no means 'relatively unknown'. It is used in dozens of projects. See: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
- marknadal 7y agoI think parent was saying the projects using IPFS are relatively unknown, so where are the millions come from? I have the same question. In contrast, GUN, has 20M+ downloads/month from known sources: Internet Archive, HackerNoon, etc. (https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun see jsdelivr download stats).
- notthegunlobby 7y agolol it's not a HN post about a decentralized project without marknadal shitting on it and shilling GUN. got a running bet it always happens, and you don't disappoint <3 -- keep it up!
- whyrusleeping 7y agoYeah, Its pretty much a staple. Despite repeated attempts by the mods to get it to stop.
- marknadal 7y agoIPFS, a YC company, is trying to censor Open Source competitors? Interesting. What are you scared of?
- whyrusleeping 7y agoI'm not trying to censor anything, lol. Just referencing many hilarious moments in your comment history where the HN mods tell you to quit spamming, and here we are again with more off topic mark spam ;)
- marknadal 7y agoLinks?
- johnmarcus 7y ago
- momack2 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia alone is 3M monthly active users.
- theamk 7y agoHow many of those users connect via IPFS protocol though? Because I bet overwhelming majority of them use https website, and do not interact with IPFS in any way.