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It’s not a young idea though. The basic technology for p2p networks has been around for decades. DHTs, voting, vouching, etc were all got academia topics like 10-20 years ago. It’s just engineering skills at this point.

I remember popcorntime was as responsive as Netflix at the time it came out and it scared the shit out of the MPAA so they killed it with prejudice.

IPFS doesn’t have an excuse for sucking beyond a basic lack of engineering effort.




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