News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on IPFS is the Distributed Web. Parent comment

Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by s_kilk on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:39PM (#12774488)
Notably, no-one seeds torrents from their mobile connections. The cost would be prohibitive, without even getting into the issue of storage.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by hatsunearu on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:27PM (#12774704)
The idea is that companies or people backing the content could easily provision more nodes to meet the demand. To create an IPFS "host", its super simple:

ipfs pin myhash

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by rv11 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:23PM (#12774687)
cost is prohibitive today, not necessarily tomorrow or work only when you are using wifi . storage can be capped.
[ Parent | on HN ]