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Re:Why Web3? by thraxil on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:13AM (#29735742)
I don't know about the others, but IPFS uses Filecoin, which is blockchain based.
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Re:Why Web3? by dtonon on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:05AM (#29736380)
This is not exact. Filecoin is built on the top of IPFS!

https://filecoin.io/build/

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Re:Why Web3? by thraxil on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:41AM (#29747508)
Yes, but IMHO, IPFS without Filecoin doesn't really innovate in any meaningful way over previous CAS/DHT based distributed filesystems (Freenet, Tahoe-LAFS, etc). Filecoin lets IPFS claim that they have at least tried to solve the freeloader problem and incentivized people to actually store strangers' encrypted data long term.
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