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I am sure that a lot more needs to be done, but a lot of it could not get done until this happened. Read all about it.
Sounds exciting! But what can you do with it (for example)?
The most interesting use of this would be to use it as a CDN for static content to reduce load on webservers.
There are two problems with this, though:
- That is already largely a solved problem
- It would be slower than existing solutions
I find it likely that people will start trying to host illegal content on it and there will be a moral panic that either shuts the project down or causes a censorship mechanism to be invented within IPFS (the very problem this was intended to solve).
While a step in the right direction, IPFS does not provide enough features to write an actual application.
IPFS is not a good place to host illegal content since it is not anonymous. At least in theory, it is possible to find which peer and which ip address has any particular content pinned.
Although there has been some criticism, Brave is definitely heading in the right direction. It's good to have a privacy oriented competitor to Firefox.