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I’m loathe to even ask (I can’t think of a more accursed combination than Lockheed Martin and cryptocurrency), but: why do you need to shoot a computer into spa
by woodruffw 4y ago
I’m loathe to even ask (I can’t think of a more accursed combination than Lockheed Martin and cryptocurrency), but: why do you need to shoot a computer into space to measure latency? Can’t you just introduce latency?
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- wmf 4y agoStating the obvious here: it's a publicity stunt.
- simonw 4y agoIPFS is crypto-adjacent but not a crypto thing itself though, right? The core idea - a content-addressable globally distributed cache - seems sound to me. And I don't believe the core IPFS protocol has any blockchains baked into it. Filecoin is a token thing which builds on top of IPFS, but my understanding is that IPFS can exist and work entirely independently of Filecoin. Or am I misunderstanding IPFS here?
- rudolph9 4y agoThat’s pretty spot on.
- woodruffw 4y agoI can understand the value of a globally distributed content-addressable store! But the page in question leads with Filecoin, is on the Filecoin Foundation’s own site, and still doesn’t address my question (which, again, is why it has to be in space to introduce latency).
- imglorp 4y agoNope, there's no blockchain anywhere in IPFS. There is a distributed hash table (Kademlia protocol), a peer-to-peer library (libp2p.io), and a bunch of clients and gateways. Crypto-adjacent is fair but IPFS has a lot of other applications that need block hosting and distribution in general.