IPFS: Decentralizing the Web with the Inter-Planetary File System

IPFS: Decentralizing the Web with the Inter-Planetary File System

  • Juan Benet

Topics:

  • Why HTTP is broken and how IPFS could complement and ultimately replace it
  • The different technologies IPFS is based on including DHT, Git, Bittorrent and SFS
  • How IPFS could enable the ‘permanent web’ by distributing file storage
  • Content-addressing and how hosting works on IPFS
  • Mutable content and the Interplanetary Naming System (IPNS)
  • Filecoin and incentivizing hosting on IPFS
  • Why IPFS is a great fit for smart contracts
  • How he wants to build and monetize core internet protocols with his company Protocol Labs

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Hosts:Sebastien Couture, Brian Crain