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Is anyone actually using IPFS? Can't find any statistics.

by Grustaf 5y ago

leshokunin 5y ago
It is used heavily in NFTs. You need content addressing for that use case.
- momack2 5y ago
  Example: most NFT marketplaces (OpenSea, Foundation, Palm, etc) use IPFS and Filecoin - https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-06-17-opensea-ipfs-filecoin/ https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-06-17-opensea-ipfs-filecoin/
7373737373 5y ago
The Internet Archive seems to be testing it: https://dweb.archive.org https://dweb.archive.org, and maybe other archival projects: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZBuTfLH1LLi4JqgutzBdwSYS5ybrkztnyWAfRBP729WB/archives/index.html https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZBuTfLH1LLi4JqgutzBdwSYS5ybrkztnyWAfR...
- Avamander 5y ago
  If I'm being totally honest, I'll believe IPFS is worth something when I see a website open seamlessly and feature-equivalent to the real one. A distributed archive.org, but not a static totally nerfed version of it for example.
gccs 5y ago
LibGen uses it and if works way better than what they had before.
twox2 5y ago
Yes, it's used heavily in many Ethereum (or other crypto) dAPPs.
- Grustaf 5y ago
  Ok, but are any of those actually used?
  - twox2 5y ago
    Yes. Millions of dollars worth of ETH are transacted through NFT platforms every day. Whether you personally consider that useful is up to you, but people are using it.
    - Grustaf 5y ago
      I know people trade NFTs, I didn't realise that counted as dApps though. Are any other, more sophisticated dApps in use?
      - rauljordan2020 5y ago
        An incredibly rich ecosystem. I would recommend checking projects such as Uniswap, Aave, Sushiswap, Compound finance, Maker DAO, Yearn finance, Balancer, Synthetix, Alchemix, etc. There are over 52 billion dollars worth of capital being used in these projects today https://defipulse.com https://defipulse.com. Uniswap v3 is an extremely sophisticated dapp being used today https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3/ https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3/. Their code is a masterclass in solidity optimizations. dapps on Ethereum are thriving
Evil__Maid 5y ago
I’ve been working on this website to help make resources available to stay safe on the Dweb. evilmaid.crypto
shubb 5y ago
I saw a pirate site trying to use it as a DMCA resistant CDN for movies. It was a disaster. Their idea, I think, was that if their site got taken down, they could easily pop back up at another address so long as the big heavy movies were safe and they just needed to make a copy of the HTML site. So long as the movies were pinned by more than one IPFS server, they would remain available at their IPFS hash, even if one server was subject to a takedown. The site could then link to the hashes via a public gateway and use an embedded player to play the movies all in simple static html. Very light to copy around. 1. It turns out that the public gateways were not actually willing to handle that amount of traffic for free. Over a few months they got blocked by all the good gateways. They could have set up their own gateway at this point but the following happened so the project died for other reasons. 2. I think the admin was hoping people would pin (seed) the popular files on IPFS and share the server load. This never ended up happening, so in the end there was just one server 'hiding behind' IPFS, burning through bandwidth. It ran out of bandwidth and the (college kid?) trying to run it ran out of money. 3. IPFS isn't designed for anonymity. When they got enough traction, they got a letter and shut down. This is why ipfs probably isn't the right platform for libgen really.
- davidwritesbugs 5y ago
  But if you were, say, The Pirate Bay and all you are pinning is the torrent file then it seems like that might have worked as torrents are only a few kb in size rather than a Gb movie file? What was the name of the site?

Is anyone actually using IPFS? Can't find any statistics.

leshokunin 5y ago

It is used heavily in NFTs. You need content addressing for that use case.

momack2 5y ago
Example: most NFT marketplaces (OpenSea, Foundation, Palm, etc) use IPFS and Filecoin - https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-06-17-opensea-ipfs-filecoin/ https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-06-17-opensea-ipfs-filecoin/

7373737373 5y ago

The Internet Archive seems to be testing it: https://dweb.archive.org https://dweb.archive.org, and maybe other archival projects: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZBuTfLH1LLi4JqgutzBdwSYS5ybrkztnyWAfRBP729WB/archives/index.html https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZBuTfLH1LLi4JqgutzBdwSYS5ybrkztnyWAfR...

Avamander 5y ago
If I'm being totally honest, I'll believe IPFS is worth something when I see a website open seamlessly and feature-equivalent to the real one. A distributed archive.org, but not a static totally nerfed version of it for example.

gccs 5y ago

LibGen uses it and if works way better than what they had before.

twox2 5y ago

Yes, it's used heavily in many Ethereum (or other crypto) dAPPs.

Grustaf 5y ago
Ok, but are any of those actually used?
- twox2 5y ago
  Yes. Millions of dollars worth of ETH are transacted through NFT platforms every day. Whether you personally consider that useful is up to you, but people are using it.
  - Grustaf 5y ago
    I know people trade NFTs, I didn't realise that counted as dApps though. Are any other, more sophisticated dApps in use?
    - rauljordan2020 5y ago
      An incredibly rich ecosystem. I would recommend checking projects such as Uniswap, Aave, Sushiswap, Compound finance, Maker DAO, Yearn finance, Balancer, Synthetix, Alchemix, etc. There are over 52 billion dollars worth of capital being used in these projects today https://defipulse.com https://defipulse.com. Uniswap v3 is an extremely sophisticated dapp being used today https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3/ https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3/. Their code is a masterclass in solidity optimizations. dapps on Ethereum are thriving

Evil__Maid 5y ago

I’ve been working on this website to help make resources available to stay safe on the Dweb. evilmaid.crypto

shubb 5y ago

I saw a pirate site trying to use it as a DMCA resistant CDN for movies. It was a disaster. Their idea, I think, was that if their site got taken down, they could easily pop back up at another address so long as the big heavy movies were safe and they just needed to make a copy of the HTML site. So long as the movies were pinned by more than one IPFS server, they would remain available at their IPFS hash, even if one server was subject to a takedown. The site could then link to the hashes via a public gateway and use an embedded player to play the movies all in simple static html. Very light to copy around. 1. It turns out that the public gateways were not actually willing to handle that amount of traffic for free. Over a few months they got blocked by all the good gateways. They could have set up their own gateway at this point but the following happened so the project died for other reasons. 2. I think the admin was hoping people would pin (seed) the popular files on IPFS and share the server load. This never ended up happening, so in the end there was just one server 'hiding behind' IPFS, burning through bandwidth. It ran out of bandwidth and the (college kid?) trying to run it ran out of money. 3. IPFS isn't designed for anonymity. When they got enough traction, they got a letter and shut down. This is why ipfs probably isn't the right platform for libgen really.

davidwritesbugs 5y ago
But if you were, say, The Pirate Bay and all you are pinning is the torrent file then it seems like that might have worked as torrents are only a few kb in size rather than a Gb movie file? What was the name of the site?