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grrowl on April 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

Frequent-ish polling of a file will keep looking for it in the nearby nodes. I suppose it would be smart enough to build up a network around a specific file. If it's close enough to real time, it could be a real solution

blake8086 on April 5, 2015 [–]

It's true that works, but which part of that is an advantage over the web the way it is now?

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