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Say what you will about IPFS and ProtocolLabs, but I really admire that they made IPFS completely blockchain agnostic. There is no requirement to buy or receiv
by georgyo 6y ago
Say what you will about IPFS and ProtocolLabs, but I really admire that they made IPFS completely blockchain agnostic.
There is no requirement to buy or receive coins to use IPFS. And multiple different implementations of persistent stores can use the same IPFS network to ensure durability.
This means that FileCoin, other coins, static hosting providers, self-hosting can all coexist and strengthen the same network.
Every other distributed content addressable file store seems to only be interested in supporting their own coin only. For that reason alone, I find IPFS the most interesting.
- Ericson2314 6y agoYeah the layering in Protocol Lab's work is really nice. The tendency of funded / for-profit software is to eschew layering, so it's easy to try out but ultimately ill-fitting and inflexible. This is a core problem of capitalism with IT. IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin etc. all resist that temptation, and I think it will help them greatly in the end.
- whyrusleeping 6y agoI really appreciate hearing things like this :) We put a ton of work into making the layering of our projects just right so that they can be reused over and over even if other things we're working on fail. It often does make it slower for us to make progress (could take soooo many shortcuts if we tried to collapse the stack) but I really do believe it's worth the effort.