IPFS

“And beyond that, even decentralized infrastructure. You have things like IPFS, Interplanetary File System, which is incentivized with Filecoin, or RWE, which is a permanent data store. And these things work. You can actually store data on them. Depending on wh…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

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

“Really I think, like, the only option was either, ah, university or Google, and in the university case, it would have been killed in, in the, you know, publish or perish world where, like, hey, this is way too ambitious. Focus on this, like, one little thing, …”

“I think this kind of tech is stuff that Google might be interested in funding from the perspective of Google funds a lot of protocols and funds a lot of research, but it also kind of runs counter to basic Google positions around, you know, data, control of dat…”

“People want to address things by what they are, not where they are. Like, it's really time, it's kind of like, it's time for the internet to move from location addressing to content addressing”

“IPFS is not something that we plan to monetize directly. Like, IPFS is a large scale infrastructure project That happens to be at a layer where you should not put money in.”

“The nodes in the IPFS network can continue talking to each other, even if the rest of the network disappears.”

“The other case is, hey, like, if there's some really popular piece of content, and suddenly it gets replicated to tons of people, now the DOS attack gets way harder, right? Like, now, now you have to DOS, Thousands of people. And so it's not fundamentally, in,…”