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by gentleman11 1819 days ago
Let’s say the entire internet switches over to this. Does it keep up in performance, does it slow down as use becomes ubiquitous - or does it become faster?
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More people is actually an asset to protocols like IPFS because everyone who downloads the data also serves it to others, so actually the more popular something is, the easier it is to get.

Likewise with ENS, all the data is stored locally on your local copy of the chain, so it doesn't matter how many users are making queries because each one is only querying their own node.

Also users are serving files to each other in an offline-first ecosystem. From that perspective it could be faster and more reliable as well.