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The content is the address, no central issuer of the tracker file needed just the CID content ID. Also since the CID is a hash of the data it can be used to val
by rudolph9 4y ago
The content is the address, no central issuer of the tracker file needed just the CID content ID. Also since the CID is a hash of the data it can be used to validate the data :wink:
- nodja 4y agoThat is exactly how bittorrent works as well tho. Bittorrent hasn't needed any trackers for public torrents since 2005 and can work solely off magnet links using the DHT network. Just like how IPFS does it.
- yellowsir 4y agothe difference is, when you have a lot of (small) files. With ipfs you have one global peer pool, with torrents you need a pool per file.
- teraflop 4y agoThat's basically the same as torrents with magnet links. As other commenters pointed out, the biggest real difference is that IPFS objects can cross-reference each other by hash, which allows you to do partial updates.
- layer8 4y agoAn “update” means a new CID though, and this basically works like a persistent data structure [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
- bakugo 4y agoThat's quite literally how bittorrent with DHT works. To download a public torrent you only need its content hash, the metadata and peers are then fetched via DHT assuming at least one reachable DHT node is aware of the torrent.
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- fomine3 4y agoWinny (since 2002) and successor Japanese P2P network were like that. They use MD5/SHA file hash as address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny