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"Here's my complete line of reasoning: You can build mutable systems on top of immutable (append-only) systems. But is that a good idea? Yes, it is, for systems which don't have hu…

> "Distributed filesystems and CDN in general are great, but let's use them for things that do not actually need a single bit of security, please." The notion that distributed file…

Agreed with lgierth and I believe this is what sets IPFS apart from many similar technologies: integration path for existing technologies. As far as I can tell, it has been an impo…

Agreed that many CRMs etc. don't have a lot of data. And that's actually good, it makes the database size very manageable in the context of trustless, distributed networks. I'm not…

See the comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376665 . It is not true that distributed systems are only good for static content or "append-only" data. "Mutable syste…

Databases, and dynamic content in general, can be done with/on IPFS. Take look at OrbitDB ( https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db ) - "Distributed peer-to-peer database for the decen…

Orbit used to use a Redis server for pubsub messaging but it's not anymore as IPFS has implemented a peer-to-peer pubsub. Totally serverless.

(IPFS dev here) We've been working hard to get js-ipfs to a working level and just last week announced it's ready. While it's still early days and we have plenty to do to make it e…