Content-addressable, peer-to-peer hypermedia distribution protocol
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^Youtube: Stanford Seminar - "IPFS and the Permanent Web"- Juan Benet of Protocol LabsArchived 2022-08-09 at the Wayback Machine Quote: "...The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, to complement--and eventually replace--HTTP. It improves the security, performance, operation modes, and data friendliness of the Web. In particular, it yields a powerful new model, where websites and web applications are decoupled from origin servers, are distributed trustlessly through the network, and are encrypted, authenticated, and executed safely..."