| >Swarm is interesting but it’s for small storage for smart contracts; it’s not a general purpose, low-cost storage option for storing terabytes of data. Swarm is intended to do exactly that. IPFS, atm, does not store terabytes of data. If I were to just dump in my data, it would be unusable within the hour as there is no incentive for nodes to keep those terabytes active and around. > You’re not going to take a snapshot of Wikipedia on it, for example: https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ Swarm already hosts static websites, snapshots of wikipedia are feasible. >IPFS is designed to replace HTTP, not run on top of it. While it shares some similarities to BitTorrent like using a DHT for content addressing, it’s really a different thing. IPFS does not address dynamic content properly, IPNS is way to slow to allow websites on the scale of google to operate sensible. I doubt IPNS could handle a decently sized subreddit in terms of activity. IPFS is unlikely to replace HTTP since both protocols address different problems. However, as it is usable today, IPFS is little more than a cache that can store some data for a bit until nobody is interested in it. >They didn’t raise $257 million from their ICO and VCs to pay volunteers using consumer-grade equipment; they’re clearing looking to disrupt the cloud storage market: https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-re.... Last I recall, Filecoin is not IPFS, it merely works on top of IPFS. You may revie your argument and replace every occurence of "IPFS" with "Filecoin", in which case it would still compete with Swarm, Storj, etc. |