• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not sure how IPFS is different from torrents. I don’t think it’s solvable with blockchain too.

    It’s nice that someone’s made electronic distributed gold, but that doesn’t include a payment system.

    EDIT: in any case, I’m aware of various systems covering small pieces of what I’ve described.

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      15 hours ago

      Maybe I’m thinking of a different distributed system, but there’s one out there that replicates it’s files to different hosts if one ever goes down. With torrents people need to actively keep it up and it could be just one machine that eventually turns off, or one machine that the FBI raid and take down.

      Edit: and crypto was for the payments and tracking of ownership. If you want it to be that easy to pay as pinging an IP, it can’t be credit cards or other similar methods. There are barriers all over the place to sending and receiving with that and it’d be rampant with fraud.