Where is all of Steemit's content stored? (not on the blockchain I don't think)
To have all the pictures, videos, etc, stored on the blockchain would be way too much I'm sure. So is all the data stored on a centralized server? Does anyone know?
To have all the pictures, videos, etc, stored on the blockchain would be way too much I'm sure. So is all the data stored on a centralized server? Does anyone know?
just wondering, what would be the point of supporting the blockchain by downloading it? do you get steem for doing that? you can't mine it anymore,so.... there is no real point to hosting the blockchain right?
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The pictures are stored on 3rd party hosting solutions. Videos are stored mostly on youtube.
All text content is stored on steem full nodes where the steem blockchain is stored. Check out https://steemd.com to see the blockchain. Anyone can host a full node where the complete blockchain is stored.
In the future steem might choose utilizing the ipfs protocol for storing images. Until then you could consider using https://ipfs.pics/ for image uploading which uses ipfs image distribution right now.
Even if it's only text that is stored on the blockchain, it's gotta build up to be huge - I trust that the text is compressed, but still...
Nice @tommyeconomics
Shot you an Upvote :)
Right back at ya :)
and dtube wheres all them videos going?
It's again on ipfs 😂😂😂
IPFS, a hypermedia peer to peer protocol. In short, all the files are stored on nodes on IPFS. Sort of like how torrents work
The files are on many computers (nodes) belonging to other people (peers)
IPFS can be fast because you can potentially find users close to you on the map meaning file transfer will take a short time
They would also be sending you the files at the same time, meaning you would get the files really fast