IPFS

“IPFS is sort of the AWS of crypto, or at least the S three.”

“It's basically a way to in a distributed fashion, store files and serve them out, and eventually, potentially even kind of replace HTTP as a transport for web-like applications.”

“A huge chunk of the ideas for IPFS were already discovered long before, and they were just not implemented in a way that people could use them. And it was up to us to take these ideas that have been around for 1020 years, and then put them in such a form that …”

“There's like billions of files moving through the network and in some capacity, a lot of people in the blockchain space are using IPFS because it fits extremely well with the blockchain model.”

“And so the point here is all content should be self archiving and should be distributable and servable by anyone.”

“So recently Turkey decided to block Wikipedia and it was very easy for them because all they had to do was intercept, you know, the connection between all Turkish users and the Wikipedia servers outside of Turkey. And so that was like very trivial blocking, bl…”

“Yeah, so, Catalonia tried to declare independence and tried to vote for it. The Spanish government censored the website, and so then the Catalan government Put their website on IPFS and distributed it that way. So it was pretty cool to see the Catalan presiden…”

“Until you have IPFS and an incentive system using something like Filecoin, on top of that, you can't really have reliable peer-to-peer file storage. So you can't really build Twitter the protocol until Filecoin is deployed and robust and easy to use.”