Interplanetary File System

http://ipfs.io is a gateway to the ipfs, a new Internet protocol which is more akin to BitTorrent, than the old fixed system that we are used to! Thus, if you run a blog, you could have all the files available for uploading on your own computer, rather than on the server of a hosting company. It could solve the problem of bad links and pagerot, because your browser would look for the hash of the file you requested, rather than an URL which do decay over time.

An ipfs hash uniquely identifies each file and directory. A file can be located by its hash, rather than an address. Every time a file is changed, its hash will change.

Using a Chrome plugin, you can pin files that you open, as long as you have an ipfs daemon running locally. This prevents them from being deleted by your local node. To get the daemon running, you need to add the binary to your executable path. When your node is running, you will be given a public and private key.

Publishing Files

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Here is an example of a file I encountered on IPFS:

As of December 2017, the ipfs_link command has not yet been introduced.

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