IPFS / Interviews + Podcasts

Juan Benet is the founder of Protocol Labs (YC S14). They’re working on IPFS, Filecoin, and CoinList - https://twitter.com/juanbenet

Dalton Caldwell is a Partner at YC - https://twitter.com/daltonc

Read the transcript: http://blog.ycombinator.com/ipfs-coinlist-and-the-filecoin-ico-with-juan-benet-and-dalton-caldwell/

YC's podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - http://twitter.com/craigcannon

IPFS, the Inter Planetary File System, is an ambitious data transfer and versioning system that seeks to deliver a fast scalable architecture for the next generation of the Web. At Epicenter Bitcoin, we covered IPFS on Episode 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erB7i6Uc4DM

I caught up with Juan at the Ethereum Devcon and delved into the opportunities enabled by combining IPFS and Ethereum. The discussion veered into the following topics:

How IPFS and Ethereum are synergistic - censorship resistant financial logic coupled with a permanent censorship resistant data web.
Opportunities for synergy - storing Ethereum state in IPFS and storing contract data in IPFs.
Challenges with merging Ethereum and IPFS.
Mutability in IPFS.
Current state and future plans.

Check out the video to gain an appreciation of how you could combine these two powerful systems and build great applications!

Links:

IPFS on Epicenter Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erB7i6Uc4DM
IPFS whitepaper: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7zrJa3LX/ipfs.draft3.pdf
IPFS website: https://ipfs.io/


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