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Re:Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript ... by mynewtb on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:47AM (#16203668)
How does something like this scale? The more hashes there are in IPFS the more latency, or am I misunderstanding?
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Re:Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript ... by p2pchatter on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:45AM (#16205198)
No, there is no global database. You just share hashes that you know about, so no matter how many hashes there is, IPFS will still be the same speed.
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