Internet seemed like a seamless channel for personal expression. It felt as if we were finally liberated with the freedom to express our ideas, views ,and opinions without any barriers. But it quite dint happen his way isn’t it?
How many times have tweets been removed, websites bought down and even in some extreme cases the whole internet access cut-off to restrict this fundamental human right ---The Freedom of Speech.
With the advent of IPFS (he Interplanetary File System (IPFS)), the game is just about to change. Its synergy with blockchain technology forms an efficient distributed immutable data storage and retrieval protocol. The IPFS protocol replaces the traditional HTTP protocol.
But rather than having these huge servers controlled solely by a few companies storing webpages online in the cloud (like Google Docs and emails), IPFS distributes data across a web of computers. A single computer, for instance, could participate in storing a part of data .IPFS intendents to decentralize the internet using a network of computers with some indexing information to identify which computer stores what information.
It’s time to move away from the concept of centralized servers hosting files to the internet nodes and imagine the whole internet of computers as a huge sworm or storage unit.
Each and every file on the IPFS platform is given a unique cryptographic address using the hash function. Once deployed in the IPFS environment, the file can be retrieved only using the cryptographic hash achieving content-based addressing and immutability at the same time.
Pear2Pear Networking leads to more availability and less latency with little scope of censorship, besides being relatively inexpensive.
And so if you are a Content Creator or distributor, a normal internet user or internet service provider, applications based on IPFS are something to look out for in future.
