IPFS Alpha Demo
What it is
Juan Benet gives an overview and demo of the go-ipfs alpha. It shows the peer-to-peer content-addressed protocol in action, including streaming video from a home computer.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN lists it among the best early resources for learning what IPFS is and does.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2015, last 2017
What HN commenters said
“The Alpha Demo”
Alpha demo listed among best resources for learning IPFS.
_prometheus, 2015-04 · Recommendation · in “IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol”
“Watch a demo of this @ 7:00 in this video”
Demo showing IPFS streaming video from home computer.
da02, 2017-12 · Recommendation · in “Decentralized Web Primer”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: ipfs, peer-to-peer, decentralized web, content addressing, go-ipfs
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