Decentralization and Content-based addressing represent a significant advancement in the development of stable, scalable, censorship-resistant systems. They require a remarkable amount of architectural thinking to work effectively. The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is an umbrella project covering a cornucopia of extremely well designed layers that will prop up and extend the Web in many new directions. Come here about a future that looks a little bit like combining the Web with Git, Bittorrent, Self-certifying file systems, Distributed Hash Tables and more.
We will discuss the architectural layers of this approach and what each brings to the table.