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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
IPFS Sats integrates the Bitcoin Lightning Network with IPFS BitSwap to create a trustless, micro-transaction-based economic incentive layer, guaranteeing permanent data persistence and high-speed retrieval of content-addressed data without centralized pinning. Seeking comments. Because this is what happens when I see something that I want to change and then start asking one of the digital intelligence systems questions about it. It eventually comes down to "nobody else is doing this, what are you waiting for?"

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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
Because it's a rich person's toy, not a grassroots thing. I'd love to change that.
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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
Filecoin and the current incentive scheme requires incredible capital resources. It should be much easier. And the main way to pin content is with a centralized paid service. I'm working on a white paper that lays it all out.
Here on NOSTR the blossom protocol has been far more useful than IPFS in the real world. People are using it without even noticing because it simply works.
I'd be interested in a working file coin but only if privacy is added into the loop. No, I don't want the whole world to see what is on my hard drive nor want to share my privacy with "cloud" providers. Then again I'm an old fashioned dinosaur, why do we even need privacy at all. Right?
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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
Which is a good reason why we need it to be open source, completely.
Now you've lost me (and that's OK, it's not my area of interest). I'm only familiar with IPFS in the use case as creating un-downable web pages.
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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
But Blossom doesn't have any use cases outside of the Nostr network. If we wanted to do anything with it for use cases across the larger internet, it would take a lot of additional work to make it standalone.
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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
Which is why I'm wondering why we shouldn't build something that would work both inside and outside of Nostr itself.
I'm doing that with geogram. Underneath the hood uses NOSTR but you notice that when noticing that the IDs are NPUB.