IPFS
IPFS is similar to Swarm; it is a peer-to-peer distributed filesystem that was designed to store and share the content across a decentralized network. Both IPFS and Swarm offer the decentralized data and content storage with content addressable hash, generated directly from the content. Both are used to store any kind of content, which can be referenced from the transactions in the Blockchain network.
Behind the scenes, there are quite a few technical differences; mainly, in terms how each chop large datasets into chunks and store them in a distributed network. IPFS may be thought of as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. Swarm may be seen as more integrated with the Ethereum blockchain, and has an ...
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