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Re:I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p by berkes on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:36AM (#23525511)
> which might make them biased against it.

How is IPFS related to blockchain? On a technical level that is.

AFAIK IPFS is somewhat related to FileCoin which runs on "a blockchain". But not IPFS.

Or am I missing something?

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Re:I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p by momack2 on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:35PM (#23534322)
Correct, IPFS is not a blockchain - while both are merkle-dags ('directed acyclic graphs' of hash-linked data), blockchains have all nodes sync the state collectively, while IPFS instead shards state across the entire network (such that each node maintains its own filestore).
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