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IIRC there were a few storage based projects that popped up using alt coins to encourage people to offer excess storage space for other randos on there internet. The possibility you might be storing illegal content might have been what killed it/them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_storage_cloud gives a few examples, like Filecoin.




In my opinion, IPFS was killed by a few things:

1) wedding itself to crypto with FileCoin.

2) terrible performance due to architectural choices (basically: too much pointer-chasing, except every pointer was back out to the DHT).

3) No serious attempts to integrate with existing software distribution strategies.

I think it's still a good core idea.


Its DHT implementation was shit. Ignoring all existing wisdom, it uses persistent connections, rates peers and has far too many special nodes.




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