IPFS: Interplanetary file storage!

[@minyakonga8897]

it's like cdn, when you request a resource, you will get it from nearest location, not the original server.

[@FinlayDaG33k]

This is actually one of the use-cases mentioned on their website :)

[@FinlayDaG33k]

@@boomerz2478 Except, IPFS doesn't try to appeal to the crypto investors to make token money :^)

[@FinlayDaG33k]

@@boomerz2478 FileCoin is literally designed to be the opposite way around lmao. It is to give people an incentive to use IPFS and serve those files. Additionally, having a browser-mined coin for those _viewing_ but not _serving_ would accomplish nothing. The entire purpose of IPFS is to have people download and serve to increase availability (and as a result, speed). Additionally, it's pretty peer-to-peer. If I visit an IPFS-enabled website, I download the stuff it needs, then serve them myself (until I delete it ofc). Also, they can't really close down or block IPFS, which is also what it was designed for. I mean, how can they block it? Just look at BitTorrent, they aren't able to block that either and well, torrents are far, far more notorious for illegal stuff. They can't close it down either, because it's open-source, so people would just fork and continue on as usual. And it probably already hosts a bunch of illegal stuff, you can never prevent that. Then again, every "censorship resistant protocol" is prone to this. Just look at ActivityPub (which is a W3C-recommended protocol), BitTorrent, TOR (more or less), Most cryptocurrencies etc. etc. And even *if* you manage to block it, it's a matter of time before a workaround will be found, which is exactly why those protocols are so powerful.

[@FinlayDaG33k]

@UCv3D-0cNQeL7BRPE5RpO2LA Correlation does not equal causation. IPFS can be ran standalone just fine like I do. It wasn't designed to give more money to the whales, it's just a side-effect of FileCoin, which is a seperate project. Also, I never said IPFS was *fast*, I only said that by having more people serve a file, the *faster* it becomes. Faster, being a relative term. Also, they haven't blocked torrents lmao. In Germany, you can torrent just fine (I use torrents to send stuff like documents and some tools I made between a bunch of friends). Yes, they have blocked sites like TPB but they have not blocked the BitTorrent protocol. They can fine you based on things like finding you in the DHT for a specific (known illegal) file and/or scraping you from trackers. They can't fine you for using the protocol itself (else using the Blizzard Launcher would get you fined since that uses the BitTorrent protocol under the hood as well). Also, they can't really done it that easily. How would they? Blocking IPFS specifically would mean blocking the underlying connection protocol (be it TCP/IP or UDP). They can block commonly used ports, but at that point, just swap ports. They can block every port but the ones they allow, but at that point, a lot of different stuff will also start breaking. The Great Firewall of China does exactly this, block a lot of ports and only allowing a select few, that they can monitor heavily (for obvious reasons). Do that in, let's say Germany or The Netherlands and well... you're bound to cause massive uproar. And ofc, as you know, in China, they'd probably just gun you down if you start rioting buuut that's a different topic. Yea ehm... suddenly your "most of your points are just incomplete and largely wrong" starts backfiring to yourself...

[@katiebarber407]

@Phoenix im looking into doing this as we speak. im commenting so i can get notifications on this thread

[@JonasBostoen]

This is incredibly well explained, thanks a lot! I'm writing an article and I'm definitely linking this video as a source.

[@qwerty.760]

yes the best source for easy understanding!

[@דבימרגוי]

As a begginer on the crypto technology, also on the decentralized technology I agree. The explanation is simple and clear. Thank you.

[@hassanahmed2781]

Honestly this channel keeps you updated about all the cutting edge technology

[@daniellemorrison3047]

wow, this is some top-notch explanation. I think it may even be at the point that you could use it to explain IPFS to an elderly person.

[@beastrule]

just need a dutch version and i can show my mom lol :p

[@datalifter]

Reminds me of the early days of the Gnutella networks, Kaza, Bearshare and other P2P clients. They had hashing of files too for verification but I don't recall a file size limitation. There was no incentive involved for persistent nodes however.

[@Moodboard39]

Good days

[@todayontheinternet9576]

8 mins for a file download? I was born of this!

[@Ben-zp8sd]

Yes please, do a filecoin video!!!😁

[@TheEngineers911]

Ben I wonder what is going on with them, they have been utterly quiet.

[@unBhakti]

Looking forward to video on filecoin video.

[@dkf2711]

IPFS is cool but Filecoin is a scam. If they were not scammers they would've used Bitcoin to pay people. Bitcoin is the only money that no one can get for free. Every other form of money that someone somewhere is getting for free but you are presented at face value is a scam. If every project starts creating it's own coin we end up with the same situation that Bitcoin was created to fix - every country with it's own money and banks getting rich for moving money around, where exchanges will be the new banks and they will get robbed and lose people's money. It is actually happening already, search "exchange hack" and you will find articles about dozens of hacks with billions of dollars stolen from the people and all because of greedy people wanting to print their own money by creating their own coin for their project. Completely killing the point of the blockchain innovation. >.

[@IIIRotor]

@@dkf2711 are you saying only Bitcoin is not a scam... Why Bitcoin? why not Ethrium or XRP or Tether or litecoin or EOS or TRON or Stellar or Monero, what about Dash or Tezos... etc etc etc.... Is Bitcoin special in some weird way, please share.

[@dkf2711]

IIIRotor Bitcoin was created to make the world better. Everything else was made to enrich the creators. Bitcoin is like Linux, it’s open and it’s community driven. The other projects are like Microsoft, they are businesses that have marketing budget and use it to create the perception of community that OneCoin and BitConnect did and also out of the crypto world Theranos which was the Ethereum equivalent in biotech. There is a reason why everyone that builds open source software builds new layers on top of Linux and not incompatible completely new kernel operating systems that you can show off idling on the desktop and say they are faster and more secure. That stuff works for startup scams which in crypto are ICOs but in general in the computer world if you want to build new software you do that on top of the most secure and stable kernel like Linux so that if your software fails the whole system doesn’t collapse. All useful new functionality is developed on bitcoin, it has smart contracts, anonymity features and scaling optimisations that actually work and are designed to be long term solutions. Everything else is recycling bitcoin improvement proposals from 7+ years ago that got rejected and is monetising on people not doing their research and throwing money at the next pump.

[@kingdom2472]

The most articulate and lucid explanation of IPFS I've heard. Thanks

[@denjua2234]

What happens if someone puts up illegal information on IPFS and no-one can remove it?

[@schok51]

I think the current answer is blacklisting hashes. Nodes would have to voluntarily accept to ignore/block replication and sharing of hashes for blacklisted files.

[@projectpegasus1297]

@@schok51 so centralized again

[@schok51]

@@projectpegasus1297 how so? Each node can individually blacklist hashes. No need for a centralized party.

[@schok51]

And blacklists can be managed as ipfs objects(IPNS dynamic pointers to files on ipfs).

[@schok51]

@@projectpegasus1297 of course one expect those blacklists to be created and maintained by some legal entity, but we can imagine different entities providing different blacklists.

[@lakshyaagarwal4044]

you guys have really stood up on your tagline; simply explained.

[@simplyexplained]

Thanks! But it's not 'guys'. It's a solo operation 😬

[@lakshyaagarwal4044]

@@simplyexplained wow! One an army

[@tomwalsh96]

Can you make a video on the Oyster protocol? It takes a slightly different approach to the same goal of ifps, also adding volatile memory functionality. It is built on top of the IOTA tangle so could potentially be distributed across all smart devices in the near future

[@VidarrKerr]

A long time ago, we used to download content (Movies and Music mostly) with IRC, Kazaa, and other apps/platforms. The files would be downloaded from beginning to end, serially. I worked with a team to create torrent downloads, where you can have multiple connections for a single download file and that the download would come in as "chunks" in no specific order, just fastest, best connection. The only credit we get as a team, is the message boards we collaborated on, so Long ago. This torrent method of data exchange now rules the internet world. Blockchain would never have existed without this tech. I don't care for credit, I am just SO HAPPY to see how far we have come since the 1990s.

[@matteobarberis1149]

okay but, what if i publish a unethical and very bad video on dtube? is there a way to remove it? there probably is, but in that case, can't turkey or any other country, just block the IP address of dtube or the site version of wikipedia hosted on ipfs?

[@prasadpusalkar123]

no need of watching any other related to this. Just the single video has cleared the whole concept.

[@artur7826]

Wow that was great, this smooth visualization and incredible information partitioning. Bravo

[@Dafpalt]

0:49 "national security security" 😂

[@JasonWhittle1]

I'm extremely interested in the IPFS. Can't wait to see it explode with growth. It would be good to see a way to host files with a currency other than filecoin.

[@basspoett]

We all know how slow torrent download is ... We can expect bandwidth issues on nodes where files are stored

[@Shrouded_reaper]

@@basspoett torrent download speeds are actually quite good. If you are complaining that it takes an hour to download a gigabyte size then just lol....

[@Moodboard39]

Need to make money

[@boyangsong3091]

Any distributed file system can do caching on mars. So the "inter planetary" part means nothing.

[@arlogodfrey1508]

use any distributed file system you want then, ipfs was tailor made for building applications and websites. not your father's bittorrent.

[@swedishancap3672]

My application that I am building will incentivize people to run IPFS nodes. This is an absolute awesome technology!

[@YassinAbbadi]

Thanks thanks thanks ! Can't be explained more clearly !

[@gofp1861]

Pretty sure HBO's Silicon Valley show was about this last night. lol cool

[@beastrule]

yup this is what pied piper wanted to do :p

[@nagesh007]

Awesome bro. Can you please teach how to setup ipfs in servers and how to fetch/store content programmatically . Thanks

[@whogotpwned]

This is really well explained. Best video on that topic on KZbin and I searched a lot here!

[@christianandrade06]

Nice, very good information and explained in a correctly way to understand INTERPLANETARY.

[@AmuterSI]

The one thing that I keep looking for regarding web 3.0 is whether or not it can remove the need for centralized ISPs

[@0_grid]

This feels like an amazing platform for Art ownership.

[@localbusinesslegends]

brilliant video and love how this can circumvent the ridiculous censorship!!

[@peterwilliams9914]

Great video again. Yes would like one on filecoin too. Thanks!

[@eliasm.3633]

Great video! I keep wondering though if there’s also a solution which makes it possible to store an entire interactive website and all its data in a decentralised way instead of hosting it on centralised servers. Anyone got a clue? Cheers

[@ayyanarjayabalan]

You can keep your site in multiple instance of different location using cloud and loan balancer. for data, replication option's are there.

[@Moodboard39]

​@@ayyanarjayabalan huh

[@mohamedoualla547]

Thank you verry much, now i got the idea of how all of this works. Especially the way you talked about the decentralized internet. Can you please make a video explaining the work of Git?

[@AndreiVaida]

If IPFS was really made to have fast internet on other planets, I think we hurry too much to develop it 😄. Nice video, very well explained.

[@michalbotor]

it wasn't. it was made to provide unavailability-resistance, temper-resistance, and censorship-resistance. all of which are desperately needed in the current economical and political landscape.

[@AndreiVaida]

@@michalbotor that's true, thank you for the answer!

[@paulsaurels]

Very good explanation... Congrats Savjee !!!!!

[@heyzeeshan]

Very easily explained, thanks sir 👏🙌

[@joemarino4519]

I would really enjoy a video on file coin. I had not heard of it before

[@ray3140]

Thank you for your explanation as always! One question tho, what if I put a file online and I want to delete it? Let's say an embarrassing picture of me that finally don't assume anymore. It's going to be on the network forever, yeah?

[@noahmccann4438]

I’d be interested to know how they plan on accounting for illegal content like pirated videos etc. If you’re participating in something like Filecoin, how do you avoid inadvertently becoming host to something you didn’t want to? Also in your example of using the file hash to ensure no tampering was done to the file you’d still be downloading the content before being able to hash it so the nefarious user has still managed to get the content onto your system. Do they plan on providing some incentive against this? Maybe an intelligent blacklist on the client’s that would start to ignore content served from and ignore requests to serve other nodes that don’t play nicely? Eventually those nodes would be cut off from the network. In any case, very interesting topic and well described (and animated)!

[@Ojaydaking]

I had same thought about illegal content. How about spreading a malicious file?

[@MassDynamic]

idk if this is true, but i think if you store only a fragment of a file in your pc, it is impossible to tell what you have. in other words, i dont think you'd be breaking any copyright laws if your hdd happens to be storing a fragment of a copyrighted file.

[@Illasera]

IPFS uses gateways that act somewhat like ISP (anyone can form a gateway) . such gateways see the signature of the file you want to have and direct you to the right nodes. that means that you know the content in advance without downloading. as far as malware, you only share the things you get a copy of, just like the regular internet, if you don't want to host malware... don't go to shady places , its the same deal. as far as filecoin and hosting things you don't , they are fragmented and can't be accessed by accident , so even if you are hosting a part of something dangerous, you are not accessing it so no harm can be done, its like an unloaded gun, it won't shoot on its own without you touching it as far as copyright issues , you prevent it the same way you do with torrents (you can't defend vs it), arrest half of the world that uses it , good luck.

[@fredi1356]

Noah McCann , The same way I would want to know in advance and be able to stop any expenditures of the tax money that I won't agree with. Your proposal is such a great idea and can hopefully be applied in many of our life activities but... Is it possible?! The proposal is fantastic!

[@ethanbecker5679]

@@Illasera Arrest half the world that uses it THIS! .. there are other ways to monetize CONTENT than copywrite.. it's time the old guys change their ways.

[@petersuvara]

Wuala tried to do something similar 12 years ago... This idea of decentralised file storage has been attempted since freenet in 1999...

[@lakshyaagarwal4044]

making work life much easier. Thank you guys

[@shofarhagadol4698]

Yes, please do a video on Filecoin

[@suniljoglekar9318]

Would you please tel us more about filecoins ? Many thanks in advance !

[@Flingafu]

well put together and easy to understand, thank you!

[@XinadSky]

What about privacy? How could you ensure that the files are private and that people that might store them can’t access them? Also, what happens when you want to delete a file? Will it remain available forever as long as people have the address to the file? Nowadays, once something is taken down, although someone might still keep a copy, it is kinda hard to efficiently distribute it. Would it be impossible to stop this using this system?

[@wesleywittekiend423]

ShadPayback not sure exactly, but in theory you could store your private files encrypted, if the encryption is strong enough. You could only access them if you had the key.

[@X_platform]

I am sure the whole concept of distributed internet is so that you cannot delete/censor any file once it is out there. If you don't want people to have some file, store them on your own drive would be the better option. Once something is in the cloud, you should always assume it is shared with everyone.

[@simplyexplained]

Like others mention: it's indeed the goal og IPFS to work like this. Completely distributed and immutable. Not possible to delete a file (but it will probably disappear on its own because nodes will stop caching it when its not requested)

[@GK-rl5du]

Yeah.. I believe content ownership is difficult target for all decentralized p2p file storage applications. The concept of ownership demands centralization.

[@isladelobos]

@@simplyexplained ((but it will probably disappear on its own because nodes will stop caching it when its not requested))----- This is a option? or a time line obsolescence programmed is implanted by defect? I LOVE FOUND OLD CONTENT. Like my lovely old EMULE

[@mahdi-sadeghi]

Your exoplanation was great!

[@bitstop2003]

Thanks for this video. It can help countries with poor internet delivery online education!!

[@lstanford23]

Wow, that was a GREAT video. I found it so informative. I had heard of Filecoin, but until now I didn't get it. I didn't know that it was built on top of IPFS, which actually makes a little more sense now that I think back on it....Thank you for the exlaination!

[@robertotomas]

I honestly thought filecoin was an alternative to ipfs until this video, thank you. ipfs name publish Qmcid is how you publish your ipfs so you get that first commit that you show. How do you get the next commit? Can you get the history of commits?

[@azizsafudin]

If you have the CID of an older version it’s not possible to get the newer ones. Commits only point to past versions.

[@luisdaniel3363]

So who I will call to get the hash of content? It's a centered server to give that information?

[@simplyexplained]

You’d like use IPNS which can assign names to hashes to remember them more easily. Just like the current DNS system that translates a domain name into an IP address

[@ven11235]

I love it. Is there a mesh network device ideal to pair with this for a fully free web?

[@brentstaple]

I should've subscribed a long time ago. Just did. Your videos are always brilliantly done. I'm going to go do even more research because this video was that interesting. Well done, Sir!

[@honza970]

2:45 Actually I start thinking "Hold on, do I get a DCMA notice/lawsuit for copyright infringement?"

[@solarflower1103]

Very clear and nicely paced. Good job!

[@hardikjamnal6589]

How do I get to know the hash of the file I want?

[@uniqhnd23]

Damn your explanation was so good!

[@southernfrechman]

A brilliant presentation. Thanks a lot 🙏

[@CChandam]

Excellent presentation.

[@MartinTini]

Awesome explanation, concise, quick, engaging

[@AItaleOfficial]

Very great explanation with details. Thanks.

[@houseofvenusMD]

Excellent concise explanation! One note at 1: 30 the web is already distributed. I believe a more accurate term is "decentralized".

[@user-or7ji5hv8y]

on the issue of content versus location address, how does one get the right content, if you don't know the hash? do you have to trust someone that knows the correct hash for that content that you are seeking? thanks

[@simplyexplained]

This is something that IPNS can solve. This system allows you to link a hash to a name. That way it becomes easier to remember and to use. You can compare it to DNS. This links a domain name (google.com for instance) to an IP address of a server somewhere.

[@james-br2gm]

Came here because I noticed Reddit avatar NFTs were using ipfs for their avatar layer assets. Interesting stuff.

[@ayushdaga4742]

Damn! What an explanation and great video editing! Really nailed it @Simply Explained ! Thanks a lot!

[@SaisBlade]

Ok but about the versioning- how will you know about a file v2 if youre content-addressing file v1? Assuming the old links to the new, but how there will be other copies v1 which dont link to v2. Is there active discovery for versioning (i.e. if i commit v2 i update anyone who queried v1 from me) or is it just passive? (ie anyone who will query v1 from me in the future will be made aware of v2)? Also how would merge conflicts work if someone else created their own v2?

[@NandishPatelV]

Thanks. Right level of technical and popular content information for me. KeepSmiling 😊🌺

[@danroz66]

Very clear and useful. Thanks!

[@noellechan7930]

thanks for sharing. very easy to understand Filecoin.

[@RishabKapadia]

Hi, don't you think the core objective of this is same as the 'Substratum' Project. Their project is already live (early beta). What do you think about it? Thanks for making these videos.

[@simplyexplained]

Looks very similar yes. I just picked IPFS because it's already being used in the wild (Wikipedia Turkey & Dtube).

[@NoSuffix]

Very well explained. Good job!

[@siddharthgarg1985]

Another Great Video... Becoming a huge fan now.. Looking forward to FileCoin video..Great Work

[@anuragdhondge9579]

Please do a video on Filecoin. I really love this project.

[@amyjie2051]

The issue that files will become unavailable if all the nodes hosting them exists today. If YT goes down, unless you have a copy of a video stored on your computer (or someone else does) then those videos are unavailable. If anything this mitigates the problem by making it easy to pin content you always want available.

[@adrianstavljenic8531]

In basic terms: IPFS = blockchain that hosts files Nodes from planet Mars can download files from nodes at planet Earth

[@mas7937]

It seems like a new world for Internet.

[@ahmadjoya2456]

I am interested to learn more about filecoin. looks interesting.

[@rohitroy.youtube]

that's pretty well explained, thanks

[@uchennaude-ibe3645]

I want to know more about Filecoin

[@samuel-fi7qi]

Fr hard to find info

[@biokeyper]

Hi Savjee, I want to know about filecoin. And thank you for the cool Simply Explained video drops.

[@bryandussanjimenez3316]

Wooo incredible, you have resolved many doubts that I had. Thanks a lot.

[@misterribal]

I don’t get how versioning works… if you request Earth’s Wikipedia page using its hash, you will receive the page from the IPSF node from Mars. But what if Wikipedia updated it? The commit won’t be seen, unless you know your version is outdated

[@arnoldsianturi2181]

I don't really get it about the "Versioning" capability of IPFS. I tried to find about committing file or uploading new version of old file to IPFS, but I can't find how it is really done (I still can't imagine how it is done practically, like is it automatic or we need a specific command to do that?). Is this versioning done by IPFS automatically, or is it done with other software/add-on/something that is separated from IPFS? I've also read about Commit File Object of IPFS, but I don't really understand about it and how it is implemented. Anyways, your video is so good. I am actually still learning english, but your video is clear enough for me to understand. Salam dari Indonesia 😇

[@TheKavlam]

Incredible, easy explanation

[@Flowing-l9m]

Awesome video! Hope makeing more information video plz!

[@NFTs_In_Business]

I would love to learn more about this.

[@Joshua-ew6ks]

Will IFPS make it possible for nodes to only store part of a file instead of the whole file? So many nodes can be access simultaneously to rebuild a large file. And to make it harder to destory a file since it is broken up between many nodes.

[@DevrajSinghRawat]

Hi Sanjee, Please do few videos on BFT Consensus, DPos, Rift !

[@josedonato9471]

great video. so simple yet complete. thanks

[@TravelNomad]

What about the real world application of IPFS? After all, this was just a theory. What about in practice? Honestly, I haven't checked anything but if I wanted to start using/contributing to IPFS network, how do I do that? Maybe make a part 2? :) Great stuff btw!

[@simplyexplained]

The Wikipedia mirror and Dtube are both real world examples. You mean a tutorial on how to setup a node yourself right?

[@adnFx2]

For sure bring more info about this, amazing content congrats!

[@Logical-Sense]

Awesome content, waiting for filecoin

[@nikolaredcorner2075]

very simple and informative ! Thanks for a shared video!

[@陈浩-d8p]

good video, and i want to learn delegate proof of stake and other consensus mechanism , thanks so much

[@sarimkhan9687]

Excellent explanation thanks for the video. Can you please post a video about how to create two private notes using IPFS

[@minghaoliu1325]

Hey, thank you for making this video! I wander would u like to share the slides about this video?

[@amolpalekar759]

Excellent explanation

[@cup_check_official]

"They want to make the web completely distributed" so, you are saying they wanna make the Pied Piper's new internet? :D

[@newscruise8177]

not a lot of people will get this reference

[@hishammubarak3421]

Pied Piper is too late to the party.

[@mdw9604]

Middle out compression is stellar

[@rahul9704]

On the contrary, Pied Piper was a reflection on IPFS

[@midimusicforever]

Dtube sounds great. A platform where you can't take down a video!

[@ayushquizforkids]

Good explained bro can u explain some more amazing things about filecoin

[@mikey10006]

yeah i wana see how file coin compares with storj

[@imharvol4477]

It would be cool if you talked about ZeroNet

[@MelvilleG]

Thanks. So in other words when I create some 1000 nft's and store them on an IPFS network they still land on someone's computer, right? How does the client determine where to upload it first and who the accepting parties will be? So a peer-to-peer network assumes the consent of all the parties - doesn't it? But I never asked anyone, still my images have an address and load up quickly. How does this work?

[@shahrameez019]

Nice video sir. Could you please create a video demonstrating the coding of IPFS on an example?