IPFS Support in Brave • Hacker News Board

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by sebmellen » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:13 AM UTC

benhylau wrote: post #237

There are several new and exciting decentralized web protocols. I am working on a tool to publish to all of them. Right now it publishes to IPFS and Hypercore, and will eventually serve signed plaintext so content can be shared to Scuttlebutt and Aether networks. For example, this site is published using https://github.com/hyphacoop/api.distributed.press and it can be accessed over HTTP, IPFS, and Hypercore. https://…

Do you have any contact information? Would love to get in touch. Working on a similar project at https://intpub.org (very nascent website, but mature ideas).

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by michaelsbradley » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

BrendanEich wrote: post #210

neiman wrote: post #181

Do they always refer to the same gateway, dweb.link? Is there a way to change this gateway? Otherwise all of ipfs will end up going through dweb.link, and that's how you centralized a decentralized technology.

No, other browsers and extensions use a gateway. This is a Go-IPFS local node, downloaded on demand (or you can run your own and connect via it).

Are there any plans for Brave to make use of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by benhylau » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:24 AM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #241

benhylau wrote: post #237

There are several new and exciting decentralized web protocols. I am working on a tool to publish to all of them. Right now it publishes to IPFS and Hypercore, and will eventually serve signed plaintext so content can be shared to Scuttlebutt and Aether networks. For example, this site is published using https://github.com/hyphacoop/api.distributed.press and it can be accessed over HTTP, IPFS, and Hypercore. https://…

Do you have any contact information? Would love to get in touch. Working on a similar project at https://intpub.org (very nascent website, but mature ideas).

Neat! Happy to connect here: hello [at] distributed.press

We were also in touch with folks from Decentralized Science https://decentralizedscience.github.io

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Acrobatic_Road » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:32 AM UTC

loceng wrote: post #230

sebmellen wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "native currency" of the Brave browser — you can read more here: https://basicattentiontoken.org/ . As the URL implies, the name is "Basic Attention Token" for some reason. Didn't really work out, but has a huge marketcap even though no one uses it: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/ .

Market cap is just a function of multiplying total shares by the last share sell price, no?

pretty much, just replace "shares" with "supply".

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Acrobatic_Road » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

joshmanders wrote: post #213

theptip wrote: post #121

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https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/ Quoth: IPFS uses content-based addressing; it creates an address of a file based on data contained within the file. If you were to share an IPFS address such as /ipfs/QmbezGequPwcsWo8UL4wDF6a8hYwM1hmbzYv2mnKkEWaUp with someone, you would need to give the person a new link every time you update the content. The InterPlanetary Name System (IPNS) solves this issue by creating an addre…

This all sounds like reinventing ICANN and tld's First you had a decentralized internet, anyone with a computer could put something online, but sharing IP's everywhere was not easy to remember, and some weren't static... So they created DNS and Top Level Domains...

IPNS is not DNS. It's just a fixed wrapper for mutable content. You are supposed to combine IPNS with something like ENS if you want human friendly names.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by loceng » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:42 AM UTC

JBiserkov wrote: post #43

See also the Beaker peer-to-peer web browser. I love how much simpler it is to host websites, from the browser - the real read/write web!! I'm not affiliated with them in any way. https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://docs.beakerbrowser.com/faq#what-does-beaker-do-bette...

Does it bother anyone else that Brave's claiming to be the first browser to support IPFS?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by 8bitsrule » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #127

Legion wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the person's point is that Mozilla is making a complete browser, rendering engine and all, while Brave is basically a shell of stuff on top of Chromium/Blink.

I don’t think the customer cares as long as you can use it

The evidence is in, and I'm sure you're right about the typical users. But the discriminating ones know better. The difference is how much it's using you.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by j-james » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:44 AM UTC

A couple of distributed protocols have been posted to HN recently. How does IPFS compare to I2P, ZeroNet, Freenet, and similar?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by john-shaffer » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:45 AM UTC

shuringai wrote: post #229

agilob wrote: post #40

Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.

and in return, brave replaces your urls with their affilate links. no thanks i'll took the hassle to open tor browser on an ipfs client

That was a bug that was fixed pretty quickly. Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841456

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by christiansakai » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:46 AM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #227

christiansakai wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is BAT?

The "native currency" of the Brave browser — you can read more here: https://basicattentiontoken.org/ . As the URL implies, the name is "Basic Attention Token" for some reason. Didn't really work out, but has a huge marketcap even though no one uses it: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/ .

Interesting