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For those interested in a system that is using ideas presented here, check out ipfs (http://ipfs.io http://ipfs.io)

• patcon 12y ago
  y'all are doing a bang-up job with IPFS, but I'd say it's always a good habit to clarify affiliation when spreading the word :) (I was going to give your team a shout-out if you hadn't beat me to it!)
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  • _prometheus 12y ago
    hey patcon! yep, you're right. whyrusleeping and I are both building ipfs. :)
• jpfr 12y ago
  In what way is IPFS different from urbit? Besides not being crazy.
  • fiatjaf 12y ago
    It works.
    • urbit 12y ago
      As Dr. Emilio Lizardo once put it... never mind. :-)
  • urbit 12y ago
    As concisely as possible: IPFS is a way to publish your data in the cloud (and the related Filecoin project is a way to host your cloud data), urbit is a way to publish and host your identity, computing and data. As a more specialized project, you'd expect IPFS to be better at the part of the problem it solves, for the same reason a sprinter sprints faster than a decathlete. (Not to mention that JB is awesome.) On the other hand, not having an identity model other than public keys (or, to put it differently, not trying to square Zooko's triangle), imposes certain problems on IPFS that urbit doesn't have. For instance, with routable identities, you don't need a DHT, and so the idea of a hash-addressed namespace is less interesting. That said, it would be easy to imagine a world in which urbit either could talk to IPFS, or even layered its own filesystem (which has a fairly ordinary git structure under the hood) over IPFS. Like I said, it's a cool project.
• JohnLen 12y ago
  Very nice. I'll have to look at this in greater depth.