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It's an opinion piece by the filecoin people, not an actual IEEE publication. TLDR: people whose salary depends on selling IPFS think everyone needs IPFS
by fxtentacle 4y ago
It's an opinion piece by the filecoin people, not an actual IEEE publication.
TLDR: people whose salary depends on selling IPFS think everyone needs IPFS
- Animats 4y agoTrue. If you could actually pay once to have a file stored forever, that would be useful. "Perpetual care" for data would be valuable. There are Filecoin people who will take your money to do that, but don't have the credibility. Now, if Berenberg Bank (private bankers since 1590 and still a substantial bank) managed the funding for this, it might be credible. One of the things they do is handle money on the scale of centuries.
- fxtentacle 4y agoActually, I believe that BitTorrent comes pretty close. The magnet links are just the SHA-256 hash of the content (in truncated). Anyone can link to such content and as long as at least one computer worldwide has the data stored and is online, you can still download it. Modern BitTorrent doesn't even need real trackers anymore, due to its distributed hash table of peers.
- TomSwirly 4y agoMany hash IDs that used to be in BitTorrent no longer are there. If you need certainty that your data is still there, BitTorrent does not deliver.
- leppr 4y agoIPFS doesn't solve permanent data availability either, the closest to "solving" this is Arweave[1] but that comes with problems of its own. It's fundamentally impossible to correctly price the availability of a "service" in the far future. [1]: https://www.arweave.org/technology https://www.arweave.org/technology
- AgentME 4y agoIPFS works just like BitTorrent in this respect. The main differences are that IPFS has more affordances for serving files to browsers so websites could be hosted through it through a standard IPFS web gateway, and that Filecoin (a system for paying people to verifiably seed your content) integrates with it.
- yellowsir 4y agothe problem with bittorrent is, if you seed n torrents at the same time. Thats n different pools to keep up to, n dhts to manage, and so on.. With ipfs you seed blocks (folders,files,content) and it does not matter how much, the inital overhead stays the same. e.g. apt could never use torrents due to the amount of small packages.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago> TLDR: people whose salary depends on selling IPFS think everyone needs IPFS Kind of important to point out this isn't in and of itself saying they are incorrect or lying. A carrot farmer may promote the health benefit of vegetables without nefarious intent.
- lapinot 4y agoThey aren't strictly incorrect or lying. They just do a very bad job at doing a thorough and honest analysis of the history, literature & software landscape of data transfer and file servers. Which is to say this is a motivated public communication and not some scientific/engineering analysis, prognostic and recommendations.
- shafyy 4y agoIt's weird that IEEE allows these type of "almost paid promotions". When I see the IEEE domain I automatically have a high degree of trust, but stuff like this will change my perception...
- eighthave 4y agoIEEE is not alone in that, basically all editorials in major publications are backed by PR staff. That's how it works, at least in the US.
- zcw100 4y agoSame people but Filecoin doesn't even use IPFS.
- sudodevnull 4y agoAre you trolling? https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/go.mod https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/go.mod