Chapter 13: Decentralized Storage and Publication with IPFS and Swarm
by Tonino Jankov
In this article, we outline two of the most prominent solutions for decentralized content publication and storage. These two solutions are IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) and Ethereum’s Swarm.
With the advent of blockchain applications in recent years, the Internet has seen a boom of decentralization. The developer world has suddenly gotten the sense of the green pastures that lie beyond the existing paradigm, based on the server–client model, susceptible to censoring at the whims of different jurisdictions, cloud provider monopolies, etc.
Turkey’s ban of Wikipedia and The “Great Firewall of China” are just some examples. Dependence on internet backbones, ...
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