Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive
by Jtsummers on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:55PM
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Or even straight on top of IPFS since there are existing HTTP gateways for IPFS to access the content and most of the archive is static in nature. Provide a client which can be used to coordinate between the numerous volunteers to ensure a wide (ideally full) backup of IA distributed over IPFS, paired with volunteer pinning of specific portions by interest groups and individuals. Their self-hosted IPFS node(s) would become the permanent seeds for this system and broader use of IPFS would ensure wider (though not guaranteed sans pinning) availability.
Eventually, given enough interest, they'd mirror everything. Maybe they could even build this on top of Torrent.