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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by chrisco255 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#24203405)
IPFS is an independent protocol from Filecoin. It is not a cryptocoin in and of itself. It is an alternative addressing system for content on the web. The idea is that files are organized by their contents (using a cryptographic hash of those contents) rather than by IP address. You can pin content with your own independently run IPFS node using any tech stack of your choosing. You can spin up a website powered by IPFS today and many people are already doing that.

https://ipfs.io/images/ipfs-applications-diagram.png for some examples of applications using IPFS. Visit https://ipfs.io/ for more info.

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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by toomuchtodo on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:23PM (#24205897)
Cloudflare also provides a gateway to IPFS [1].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/

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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by john_moscow on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:43AM (#24211602)
Yeah, they probably did a partnership for extra visibility (Protocol labs could even have paid them to build it, as it increases the perceived value of IPFS and hence Filecoin). It still doesn't tell anything about demand.
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Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans by bonedaddy on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:02PM (#24206450)
Cloudflare's gateway also does down like 50% of the time. It is hardly reliable. But this isn't so much indicative as a problem with Cloudflare, more than IPFS is completely unreliable
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