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Re:As of January 19th, 2018, IPDB will be shutting down by nileshtrivedi on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:08PM (#16079844)
Apparently, this is because of legal liability that comes with permanent storage of arbitrary data: https://twitter.com/BigchainDB/status/949305547731300352

It's sad because a public blockchain database is somethat that ought to exist IMHO.

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