Interplanetary File System (Technium Podcast S02E02)

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IPFS is a distributed storage network. The content is accessible through peers located anywhere in the world that might relay information store it or both, and IPFS finds data by its content address rather than its locations.

We discuss the main principles behind IPFS, the current use cases, and how it changes the basic unit economics of some businesses, as well as its interplanetary future.

Chapters:

00:00 Intros
02:25 What is IPFS?
13:58 Three Principles of IPFS
15:01 Content-addressable URIs
18:44 Content Linking in a DAG
21:27 Distributed Hash Table for Discovery
22:48 Pinning Content
30:58 Censorship-resistance
36:38 Used for NFTs
39:04 Used for Video and Music Streaming
42:56 Use for Package Manager
49:14 Use for Machine Learning
54:38 Interplanetary Linked Data
56:37 A Key Building Block
59:22 As a Public Good
01:06:36 Developers Tools on top of IPFS
01:10:07 Shifting Operational Burden
01:18:15 The Interplanetary Future

Links/Resources:

• Content Addressing https://simpleaswater.com/ipfs-cids/
• Linked Data https://ontola.io/what-is-linked-data/
• Distributed Hash Tables https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-744/S07/lectures/16-dht.pdf
• Napster, Kaaza, Gnutella https://www.slideshare.net/uschmidt/peertopeer-systems/20-Comparison_Napster_Gnutella_KaZaAType_of
• Juan Benet of IPFS https://research.protocol.ai/authors/juan-benet/
• ProtoSchool https://proto.school/
• Marc Andressen’s Blog Archive https://pmarchive.com/
• Left Pad Debacle https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/
• NPM as a private company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc&t=46s
• Transfer Learning https://builtin.com/data-science/transfer-learning
• Deno Programming language https://deno.land/
• IPLD https://ipld.io/
• Jack Dorsey Regrets Shutting down API https://www.revyuh.com/news/software/developers/twitters-founder-admits-that-shutting-down-the-api-was-worst-thing-we-did-it-affected-users-and-developers/
• Datomic https://www.datomic.com/

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