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Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem by mafintosh on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:32PM (#23185015)
Hypercore is a single writer append-only log. The website has a bit more info about how it works, but's basically a merkle log signed by a private key / public key scheme. We build collaborative data structures by combining multiple Hypercores.

Hyperdrives builds a p2p filesystem on top of Hypercore for a single writer. Using mounts you can mount other peoples drives so merge conflicts don't happen since there is no overlapping writes.

We are working on a union mount approach as well for overlapping drives (we talk a bit about this in the post)

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Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem by grizzles on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:56PM (#23185325)
So it sounds a bit like you've replicated git.

Do you agree that for the collaborative data structures side of things (like the chat app) users of the hypercore-protocol will likely run into clock trust problems?

PS I'm a big fan of your work/repos.

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Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem by mafintosh on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:59PM (#23185368)
Yea you have to trust the original writers atm. I have some ideas for reducing this trust in the future through some consensus schemes but nothing fully baked yet. Def something I wanna hit tho, so we can get better security in something like a massively distributed chat system.
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