The InterPlanetary Filesystem

[oedipamaas49]

The Interplanetary File-system must be one of the most interesting technical concepts I've come across lately.

[warning: the below is pretty technical. Likely both confused and confusing, written to help me et my head round IPFS]

Globally distributed file-storage is something that's been just around the corner for a long time now. Bittorrent and

Comments

[azekeil]

That is very interesting. Where'd you hear about that?

[oedipamaas49]

From a friend who's pretty deeply into that kind of thing.

It actually came in response to me suggesting that, if we ever colonise space, we'll have to reinvent Usenet to deal with the latency. And though, sadly, there isn't really much 'interplanetary' about the interplanetary filesystem, it was reason enough to mention it.