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