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IPFS is basically BitTorrent if all the torrents could share with each other. IPFS is as if each "torrent" is a single chunk of data instead of a siloed collect
by noman-land 5y ago
IPFS is basically BitTorrent if all the torrents could share with each other. IPFS is as if each "torrent" is a single chunk of data instead of a siloed collection of stuff.
IPFS expands BitTorrent into a global filesystem.
You can mount IPFS on your filesystem and address files by pointing at local resources on your machine. So you could have an HTML file say `<img src="/ipfs/QmCoolPic" />`. You can't do that with BitTorrent.
- hannasanarion 5y agoOkay, but it's not 2001 anymore. Bittorrent was useful because parallelizing uploads across a broad network increased speed to a degree that content hosts couldn't manage. But that's not true anymore, most internet power-users are on broadband connections, many of which are symmetric, transfer speeds up or down are no longer a limiter that pushes people towards decentralization. So when considering a decentralized system like IPFS, the downsides of decentralization, like availability, edit control, and service support, are much more salient. There are a lot of things that "could work if everybody uses it". You can never get there if the thing isn't desirable compared to existing alternatives.
- easrng 5y agoBitTorrent v2 shares dedups chunks between torrents as a side affect of changes to the hashing algorithm.