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Re:An introduction to IPFS by smokeyj on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:26PM (#11135892)
It seems like ultimately there will be an external protocol for distributed databases. For example bigchaindb.
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Re:An introduction to IPFS by jokoon on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:13PM (#11137477)
This is much more interesting. Accessing data instead of accessing files or addresses makes more sense if you're making an application.

With such a database system, it would be trivial to build a decentralized forum, for example.

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Re:An introduction to IPFS by noffle on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:45PM (#11137668)
The "FS" part of IPFS can be misleading: you can store arbitrary data in IPFS.

The tooling merely provides a means of viewing Merkle DAGs (the base data structure) as a file hierarchy because it's a pretty clean 1:1 mapping that's familiar to many people.

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