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Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by Barrin92 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:09PM (#36188510)
>Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available

This isn't useful for 99% of stuff and pushing every video and music file on earth through a global state machine with the performance characteristics of an Atari from the 80s would render the thing inoperable. The entire Bitcoin network has a bandwidth of like 1mb every 10 minutes, the total size of the blockchain is half a TB in total, people torrent more porn in the time it took me to type this.

Maintaining a global, complete history of transactions only ever made sense for one problem, double spending, and is utterly useless for sharing files.

Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by sebmellen on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:04PM (#36190032)
IPFS is not a blockchain in the traditional sense. You might be conflating it with Filecoin.
Re:Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS by abwizz on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:22AM (#36193459)
ok.

but nobody said otherwise