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maybe I'm missing something but isn't ipfs just BitTorrent with extra steps (self.ipfs)

submitted 8 months ago by Secret300 to c/[email protected]

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Maybe I'm too dumb and don't understand but it seems to me it's just like that but with end to end encryption and hashing.

I'm all for it but I've just been curious as to what all the hype was about

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Its quite a bit more, but I wouldn't blame you for making the comparison.

Side note: unless you're a dev really trying to get in on bleeding edge stuff, ignore the hype. The IPFS team is doing great, but there's a lot of work left to do.

The torrent TLDR is; theres a lot of quality-of-life things missing from torrents (if they were going to be loaded like webpages) and it turns out fixing some of those quality of life things requires solving some pretty hard technical challenges, even if they don't feel much different to the end user. Things like decentelized discovery, content address hashing (best thing since sliced bread), merkel trees for de-duplication, and change detection.

[–] Secret300 2 points 8 months ago

I don't even know what a Merkel tree is haha. I guess I need to learn more about the underlying technology of ipfs to be more impressed by it