Interplanetary File System (IPFS) with Juan Benet

Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.

IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications.

Juan Benet is the creator of IPFS and the founder of Protocol Labs.

Questions

• What problem does IPFS solve?
• Is IPFS most like BitTorrent, or a CDN, or a Git repo?
• What does this have to do with Databases Week?
• How does IPFS compare to Ethereum?
• How does IPFS compare to the web?

Links

• IPFS Whitepaper
• Conflict-free replicated data types
• IPFS Demo
• Why We Must Distribute the Web (YouTube)

Jeff