> Doesn't that ipfs.io URL contain an IPFS content address? Some NFTs contain an HTTP URL to a specific IPFS proxy. This one in particular indeed doesn't, whic

> Doesn't that ipfs.io URL contain an IPFS content address? Some NFTs contain an HTTP URL to a specific IPFS proxy. This one in particular indeed doesn't, which is better. > but it would be more difficult to take down all the peers hosting that IPFS content True, but IPFS isn't private. If the authorities want it badly enough they can create a fair amount of trouble. > So I'm not sure if the "depends on external infrastructure" criticism really holds. It does require some participation in the IPFS peer-to-peer network, at least for you to download the content the first time, but that's also trivially true of the blockchain itself. IPFS is far more vulnerable than the blockchain. Arguably you're not participating in anything specific when you run a blockchain node. On IPFS you voluntarily mirror content. That means that to provide an extra source of data not only you must run IPFS, but you must voluntarily take the step to mirror this particular file. So while on say Ethereum there's as many copies of everything as there are nodes, on IPFS it's very possible there's just a single server in the entire world that's hosting that particular data.