- When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people.
- ‘In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository.
- Let's just start with a one-line definition of IPFS: IPFS is a distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data.
- A fast, reliable bridge between the traditional web and the distributed web. More on how it works (and how to connect your IPFS content) in the blog.
- A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. IPFS Project has 220 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
- In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository.
- IPFS allows users to host and receive content in a manner similar to BitTorrent. ... In contrast to BitTorrent, IPFS aims to create a single global network.
- This is why activists mirrored Wikipedia to the IPFS for Turkish citizens when the government banned the popular online encyclopedia in 2017.
- IPNS (InterPlanetary Name System) and IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) are reshaping the way we handle data storage and management on the internet.
- Let's explore a decentralized storage alternative, IPFS, and also look at how developers can create an IPFS NFT using the following endpoint!