The nodes can communicate between each other and exchange files.
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As in the blockchain world, every user is running its node (server).
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IPFS is a protocol for storing and sharing content. The InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS for short, is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
#Decentralized file storage how to
How to persist content from the peer-to-peer network.How to exchange data using the peer-to-peer Bitswap protocol.How to connect an IPFS node to a decentralized network.How to reverse engineer the IPFS datastore.What is CID – the IPFS content-based identifier.How to store and retrieve IPFS content using the CLI and HTTP.And we'll read a Wikipedia website stored on IPFS.All about the low-level internals of the IPFS protocol.
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