Introduction to IPFS
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Join us to explore IPFS - the cutting edge open-source technology of the future available today.
- When: Thursday, 21 January 2016 [18:30-20:00]
- Where: Oil Can Harry's, 31/32 Lower Mount St, Dublin 2 open streets map
The event is free, but please help our efforts with a donation (value can be adjusted).
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Additional Information
This meetup will be led by Dr. Ingo Keck
We'll be joined by Juan Benet (via video link), inventor of the Inter-Planetary File System and founder of Protocol Labs.
IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high throughput content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyperlinks. This forms a generalized Merkle DAG, a data structure upon which one can build versioned file systems, blockchains, and even a Permanent Web. IPFS combines a distributed hashtable, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other.
We would like to thank the guys in Oil Can Harry's for hosting the event.
Also a big thanks to all of the volunteers who helped organise the event: Denis Parfenov, Dr. Ingo Keck and Adrian Corcoran