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IPFS is not a storage technology. IPFS is a retrieval technology. In fact the two technologies would complement each other really well. Imagine that you could
by kevincox 6y ago
IPFS is not a storage technology. IPFS is a retrieval technology.
In fact the two technologies would complement each other really well. Imagine that you could pay someone to make content available on IPFS, basically a distributed pinning service. However this isn't trivial because IPFS generally assumes that people with files would like to share them, however a for-profit storage node would be incentivized to use as little bandwidth as possible.
- fwip 6y agoIPFS includes both storage and retrieval. I outlined in my post a specific, trivial way to pay somebody to make data available on IPFS.
- kevincox 6y agoI guess we are arguing semantics but your last paragraph sounds like you are asking someone to do storage and make it available over IPFS, I still see the storage part as quite disparate. This is like saying HTTP provides storage because you can pay someone to host your files and allow you to access them over HTTP.