IPFS: What and How
What is it? It’s a p2p file upload and share protocol/software. It uses blockchain technology. So it can’t be shut down except in China or North Korea. It also has the garbage collection feature, which means, if nobody ever visits and caches your content, your content will be deleted forever from the internet after a period of time. The more people visit and cache your content, the quicker speed you will get when someone requests your content. https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/whenever-i-upload-a-file-does-all-my-connected-peers-cache-that-immediately/10467 How to use it? After a lot of research, finally I got it. for generals What you do is to download an ipfs-desktop app, then run it, then upload your file, that’s it. (you can get a shareable URL I guess) https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/releases for HTTP API tester https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipfs-http-client http://docs.ipfs.io.ipns.localhost:8080/reference/http/api/#getting-started for programmers I found that th...