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> Importantly, this is enabled by content addressable storage in IPFS Can't it be enabled in all sorts of ways? E.g. edge caching, the way YouTube works today?
by robertlagrant 3y ago
> Importantly, this is enabled by content addressable storage in IPFS
Can't it be enabled in all sorts of ways? E.g. edge caching, the way YouTube works today?
- toomuchtodo 3y agoCoordination, namespace, and addressing challenge with traditional addressing and caching. It’s why BitTorrent is so good at distribution: it is uncoordinated edge distribution, IPFS is just a bit more formalized. Subresource integrity demonstrates why the crypto is needed.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI thought BitTorrent's main strength (although that is one) is that it allows dynamic routing through lots of nodes, so you aren't pulling from a central cache, but from all sorts of clients. That was particularly useful in a world of asymmetric upload/download speeds; many people could upload to you at once, enabling your to saturate your downlink. That wouldn't be the case on the moon I would have thought, as you won't have a huge network of intermediate nodes to draw on. You probably just have one or two links, which you can push content through en masse. Tl;dr I don't see why what you're saying applies in this scenario.