IPFS Alpha Demo
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN lists it among the best early resources for learning what IPFS is and does.
What it is
Juan Benet gives an overview and demo of the go-ipfs alpha. It shows the peer-to-peer content-addressed protocol in action, including streaming video from a home computer.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Recommends _prometheus · 2015-04 · on “IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol”
(EDIT: we've a meetup coming up soon. The SV Ethereum Meetup is hosting an intro to IPFS later this month in San Francisco: [LINK] come hang out!) --------------- Hello Everyone! --------------- @jbenet here. Thanks for all the attention! Did not expect to wake up to this post today :) The best resources for learning about ipfs are: - The IPFS Paper: [LINK] (note: DRAFT 3, working on DRAFT 4, lots has evolved.) - The Alpha Demo: [this video] - The First Tech Talk: [LINK] - The IRC Logs: [LINK] -- there's so much knowledge in these, we're working on moving it over. We're working on a bunch of more expository media: - Specs!! [LINK] - More Demos - More Talks - Draft 4 of the paper But there's only
Recommends da02 · 2017-12 · on “Decentralized Web Primer”
I'm with you on this one. I had to Google all of this for a few minutes. This is my best interpretation below. I hope others will come in and correct my silly mistakes. (Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer and English is my 2nd language): "So you know how people use BitTorrent to distribute big-budget Hollywood movies with occasional mediocre storylines? What if you could distribute your own data on a similar P2P network, but view it directly in a web browser (among other HTTP clients)? You suddenly turn your seed box into a "web server". Plus, you can stream videos on it too. So your home computer is not just a "web server", it can act as your own "Netflix" server to publish your home movies.
Cites pooper · 2016-10 · on “Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos”
> Let me add, if somebody would be willing to subsidize such a service (large co, or gov) Except that such a large co or gov would probably not allow certain videos against itself. Can I force them to host it against their wishes? I don't mean to add this link sarcastically: [this video] Maybe we have hope with ipfs? It looks promising to me [LINK] Edit: obligatory sample video [LINK]