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RE: The death of steepshot... And why we need decentralized apps!
How does IPFS work? Can you give me a brief summary? And how hard is it to maintain Steepshot up and running? I might have a guy that would love to put SteepShot up and running, need to see if he wants to... he is already running a witness node and has some spare equipment in his home so it probably wouldn't be too much of a hassle
IPFS is a P2P file sharing system. A lot like bittorrent, however bittorrent is extremely outdated compared to IPFS. It is designed for hypermedia content such as images, videos and more. Dtube network uses IPFS for example, which allows any node to store/share videos without being directly part of servers hosting the majority of the content. Basically allowing any person to store/provider all of the content on a particular dapp. SteepShot from what I have of its source, uses some sort of API to interact with steem through Steepshot's server you would need to figure out and completely gut that replace with IPFS/Raw steem API.
Is there an incentive to keep a IPFS node up? Do I earn crypto or any other sort of thing? Hmmm, SteepShot is a little more complicated than I originally thought... Going to search around to see how it goes...
There is currently no system for earning crypto, if you run a node you get your own benefits such as content that you look at through the node gets cached and provided to other nodes making the system fast for popular files reducing a single point of failure. I am working on an experimental system where you can earn crypto for hosting dtube videos or other content.
That system would be awesome, and I would probably try to run a node at home, I have a really really fast network, could I run the node from a normal computer or would it require a server or any kind of special equipment? Kinda new at all this, but it would be an awesome project!
When the system is up and running I'll be the first one to give it a try :)
Yes
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There isn't any special equipment. You can even run it on a phone 😂
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Since it is peer to peer wouldn't a faster computer and internet make the node run faster too?
When the system is up and running I'll be the first one to give it a try :)