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by MrEldritch 2832 days ago
IPFS is basically a cross between BitTorrent, plus Git's datastructure for permanently and uniquely identifying particular versions of and updates to a given piece of content, plus a clever distributed hash table for keeping track of who has what content.
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Am I the only one who finds this prospect very exciting?
Definitely not, hence the enthusiasm with IPFS, and Cloudflare's recent decision to launch a IPFS gateway.