What is IPFS? What is the future of IPFS?
Let the blogger introduce IPFS today!
To understand IPFS, you must first know what HTTP is, because the emergence of IPFS is iterative HTTP.
I think everyone is familiar with HTTP. When we need to open a website to search and download certain information, we use HTTP. It is the underlying hypertext transfer protocol. It was released in 1996, and it has been 25 years since its contribution to the world is obvious to all. But over time, people gradually discovered his shortcomings. His operating principle is to concentrate all data on a central server. The server must be on for 24 hours. The load pressure is extremely high, which can easily cause the system to crash and be vulnerable to DDOS attacks. Once the above problems occur, data loss and irreversibility will occur. I believe that when you search for a 404, it means that data is lost, deleted, or maliciously tampered with.
It is for this reason that the smart brains in the world begin to collide with each other. So in May 2014, Juan Benet, who graduated with a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, founded the protocol laboratory. The protocol laboratory is a laboratory for research, development and deployment of network protocols. It is committed to building protocols, systems, and tools to improve the way the Internet works, and it focuses on how to store, locate, and transmit information. Its goal is to solve the shortcomings of the traditional Internet through new technologies, good user experience and open source methods, and IPFS was born.
The Chinese translation of IPFS is "Inter Planetary File System" (Inter Planetary File System), which is a basic point-to-point hypertext file transfer and storage protocol. Simply put, HTTP puts eggs in a large basket, while IPFS puts eggs in baskets all over the world.
The purpose of the birth of IPFS technology is to iterate HTTP technology to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks. IPFS stores files in multiple nodes close to users, and the storage is fragmented. Traditional DDoS attacks are invalid, files are more secure, the closer the distance, the faster the download speed, and the storage cost will be reduced. What's more advanced is that due to the use of blockchain technology, historical versions can be traced back and theoretically can be stored forever. So the emergence of IPFS is iterative HTTP, its technology is more advanced, the use cost is lower, and the operating conditions are more convenient.
Over time, IPFS technology has been used in many applications around the world. Internet giants are deploying IPFS, foreign countries such as Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Facebook, Huawei, Ali, Tencent, JD, Baidu, etc., this also illustrates a problem. The global consensus on the value of IPFS is unified, because the emergence of this project is to replace HTTP, that is, to provide humans with safer, more efficient, and cheaper storage technology. Data is an important cornerstone for recording the development of human civilization and a weather vane for the development of human civilization in the future. Without data, there is no future. With the exponential growth of data generated by the rapid development of civilization and technology, data storage technology is also constantly iterating, just as the technological revolution develops to the information revolution. IPFS is the future of data storage.
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