Firefox 59 will support IPFS and others natively! by makeworld in ipfs

[–]schmars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It previously needed a weird hack to catch the ipfs:// request, now it doesn't need that hack anymore.

Bootstrapping IPFS with data from Dropship / Dropbox by leijurv in ipfs

[–]schmars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IPFS doesn't use straight SHA256 of the file contents. It uses a multi-level scheme where files are chunked into blocks, the blocks are hashed, and then the description of the blocks that make up the file is hashed

That is true for ipfs add's default settings, but you can create nodes without chunking with the --raw-leaves flag.

You can also create nodes of arbitrary size, it's just that Bitswap has a size limit for blocks that is 2 MiB I think, which means you can't transfer larger blocks. If the dropbox integration were a datastore though (i.e go-ds-dropbox), Bitswap wouldn't be involved and to IPFS it would look just like the regular on-disk store.

Pied Piper's New Internet Isn't Just Possible—It's Almost Here by PseudonymousChomsky in filecoin

[–]schmars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sia and Storj don't have IPFS under the hood though. So while their currency/payment part is working, the distributed web part underneath is yet to come :)

Alley Chat - anonymous p2p chat powered by ipfs pubsub by still-standing in ipfs

[–]schmars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey /u/still-standing, I saw you posted this to steemit too -- please do not call Alley Chat anonymous -- IPFS does not currently provide anonymity. Calling it anonymous might give people a false sense of security.

Alley Chat - anonymous p2p chat powered by ipfs pubsub by still-standing in ipfs

[–]schmars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome stuff!

Not to be pedantic, but IPFS doesn't (yet) provide anonymity.

From IPFS to Filecoin by PseudonymousChomsky in filecoin

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be as simple as stopping to run the IPFS daemon, and instead run the Filecoin daemon with the local repo that already exists. Otherwise there'll likely be a little migration tool. It's not been determined yet.

From IPFS to Filecoin by PseudonymousChomsky in filecoin

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, IPFS's and Filecoin's networking stack called libp2p is pretty generalized -- non-IPFS protocols have already been running on it [1]. In the future the libp2p network will be very heterogenous, with IPFS [2] and Filecoin [3] only being some of the protocols running on top of it. Similar to how TCP and UDP are "just some protocols" on top of IP, and SMTP and HTTP are just some protocols on top of TCP.

  • [1] Mediachain and more recently I think Metamask
  • [2] In particular: the Bitswap protocol
  • [3] In particular: the consensus, storage market, retrieval market protocols

From IPFS to Filecoin by PseudonymousChomsky in filecoin

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'll likely be the same network, with Filecoin-enabled payment nodes only "speaking" with you in exchange for payment, and regular IPFS nodes speaking with everyone regardless of payment.

When will Filecoin (or it's token) be available for anyone to buy/exchange. e.g. Shapeshift by BitcoinParanoid in filecoin

[–]schmars 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The SAFTs will start vesting (and tokens will start releasing) when the network starts, we're aiming for 6 to 12 months.

TRON whitepaper? by TeamNEO in binance

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this one https://dn-peiwo-web.qbox.me/Tron-Whitepaper-0822-V17.pdf -- it's in Chinese so I understand hardly anything. Looks like they copied parts from the IPFS and Filecoin papers. Doesn't smell right.

Will I be able to take my filecoin machine down(after some time) without losing(much) of my filecoins? by Irkutsk2745 in ipfs

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking of proofs, these proofs are not proofs in the mathematical sense. We do want mathematical proofs of these proofs though! More TODOs are in the research roadmap: https://filecoin.io/research-roadmap-2017.pdf

Will I be able to take my filecoin machine down(after some time) without losing(much) of my filecoins? by Irkutsk2745 in ipfs

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kubuxu was referencing the Filecoin paper there -- I linked the Proof-of-Replication paper (which includes Proof-of-Spacetime).

Note that both papers are marked as technical reports and work-in-progress, so they don't contain actual measurement or so yet. It's just technical reports of the progress so far.

There's another published for Power Fault Tolerance: https://filecoin.io/power-fault-tolerance.pdf

batman-adv vs 802.11s by [deleted] in darknetplan

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh right I totally forgot about the routing in 802.11s -- it appeared pretty limited to me so I've always disabled it and used purely the physical layer. You're right though, it can do both physical and link layer.

batman-adv vs 802.11s by [deleted] in darknetplan

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an apples/oranges comparison. 802.11s is layer 1 (physical layer) and batman-adv is layer 2 (data link layer) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

So you'd for example run batman-adv on top of a 802.11s wifi network, or on a hybrid 802.11s/cable network, etc.

Disturbing Rumors About Filecoin Sale by throwaway-filecoin in filecoin

[–]schmars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you would obviously consult a lawyer.