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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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