yes the best source for easy understanding!

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

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

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

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

@@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.

@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...

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

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

Looking forward to video on filecoin video.

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. >.

@@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.

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.

Good days

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.

@@schok51 so centralized again

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

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

@@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.

yup this is what pied piper wanted to do :p

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

@@simplyexplained wow! One an army

Thank you for watching them all. Really appreciate that! Always keep learning!

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.

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

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

@@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....

Need to make money