{"id":18124,"date":"2015-10-04T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:34:17","slug":"why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late","title":{"rendered":"Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It\u2019s Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ipfs.io\/\">IPFS<\/a> isn\u2019t exactly a well-known technology yet, even among many in the Valley, but it\u2019s quickly spreading by word of mouth <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ipfs.io\/ipfs\/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1\/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.html\">among folks in the open-source community<\/a>. Many are excited by its potential to greatly improve file transfer and streaming speeds across the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>From my personal perspective, however, it\u2019s actually much more important than that. IPFS eliminates the need for websites to have a central origin server, making it perhaps our best chance to entirely re-architect the Internet \u2014 before its own internal contradictions unravel it from within.<\/p>\n<p>How, and why? The answer requires a bit of background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/10\/04\/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPFS isn\u2019t exactly a well-known technology yet, even among many in the Valley, but it\u2019s quickly spreading by word of mouth among folks in the open-source community. Many are excited by its potential to greatly improve file transfer and streaming speeds across the Internet. From my personal perspective, however, it\u2019s actually much more important than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64009,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124\/revisions\/64009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}