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Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#11

So IPFS with incentives to run a node? One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.

What's cool about IPFS is that anyone can pin the content and the user doesn't have to migrate anything. This makes hosting far more liquid, which should drive down prices.

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#12

So IPFS with incentives to run a node? One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.

I think that is what Filecoin [0] addresses.

[0] https://filecoin.io/

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#13
So this appears to be a distributed network of random people's devices, and the 'blockchain' aspect is entirely unrelated to the actually useful parts of how the tech works. It's just how people are paid for contributing their devices to the network?

Am I missing anything? Are the non-blockchain parts of this actually interesting?

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#14

So IPFS with incentives to run a node? One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.

The people behind IPFS developed FileCoin[0] to provide incentives.

[0] - https://filecoin.io/

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

#15

So IPFS with incentives to run a node? One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.

I think that is what Filecoin [0] addresses. [0] https://filecoin.io/

Beat me to it.

Re: Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology

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post #13

So this appears to be a distributed network of random people's devices, and the 'blockchain' aspect is entirely unrelated to the actually useful parts of how the tech works. It's just how people are paid for contributing their devices to the network? Am I missing anything? Are the non-blockchain parts of this actually interesting?

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