IPFS is becoming more widely adopted!
It does solve a real problem: having a small blog collapse from HN or Slashdot users is silly. It feels rather like a more general solution for a CDN. https://twitter.com/Cloudflare/status/1041674183946764288
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Multihash is a rather nifty format for hashes, where you can distinguish between e.g. a SHA1 and a Blake2b: https://multiformats.io/multihash/
It originates from the IPFS project, where they want flexibility in how they implement content-addressable storage.
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Hosting a Docker registry on IPFS! The global P2P content-addressable filesystem seems like a good fit for Docker images.
IPFS is a really nice distributed filesystem that is slowly growing in popularity. Netflix has found a good use case: container image distribution.
https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/ipfs-emerges-as-tool-to-distribute-container-image
I'm slightly reminded of Usenet: just download content from the nearest server!
