Is ipfs reliable?

Reliability is absolutely unreliable, it just depends on whether it can make money. You have to know that ipfs is a protocol. This protocol is destined to not be popular because it is too anonymous and cannot be traced by the rights department, so It is destined that he cannot be popularized. Of course, when talking about ipfs now, we all refer to the virtual currency fil. This currency has been on the trading platform for several years. It was finally launched on the mainnet last year, and it also brought surprises to everyone. I stocked up on it a few years ago. Almost all make huge profits. But strictly speaking, this thing is just a capital disk. However, for now, some mines and consortiums are still investing continuously, so it is still reliable. What this reliability means is that it can indeed make some money now. But you have to keep your eyes open. Don't lose big because of small things. Some platforms that sell computing power are also open-air transactions. There is no physical mining machine under custody at all. They just use your money to speculate, and then you will be divided into cents every day according to the computing power you purchased. Which day? Once he becomes an adult, he has no choice but to run away.

Virtual currencies are too easy to control, and sudden rises and falls are common. So be careful before investing.

If you want to know whether ipfs is reliable, you must first know the attitude of the country.

With the vigorous development of China's economy, the economy is large, domestic demand is strong, and the process of global integration is accelerating. The demand for distributed storage will become higher and higher as the geometric level of data grows again. This year alone, the global information volume is expected to reach 50ZB, and China accounts for 18% of global data and information output. Today's centralized data cloud storage is not enough to meet the needs of such ultra-large-scale data.

Therefore, the country has begun to attach importance to the network development of distributed cloud storage since 2019. The State Council and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have continued to have heavyweight guests attend IPFS ecological construction and development conferences. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology took the lead in convening a distributed storage exchange conference in Shenzhen. The participating companies included IBM, UnionPay, Ping An, Tencent, Huawei and other institutions. It is enough to show the importance that governments and enterprises attach to distributed cloud storage.

In 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China organized a meeting and pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the progress of new basic information construction including artificial intelligence, big data centers, 5G construction, etc. Different from previous years' infrastructure strategy, this time's infrastructure is technical infrastructure, and the basis is data circulation. Obviously, data circulation is equivalent to the basic soil of new infrastructure and the underlying foundation of new infrastructure.

On March 25, 2021, an article by People’s Daily Online set off a small wave in the distributed cloud storage industry. This article from People's Daily pointed out the importance of IPFS distributed cloud storage. With the popularization of 5G technology, enterprise data will become the mainstream of Chinese data and the data market will double. Distributed cloud storage and decentralized cloud computing, as important infrastructure of Web3.0, will accelerate the digital transformation of related industries.

From the Two Sessions, the 14th Five-Year Plan to the key promotion of new infrastructure and enterprise digitization, there is no doubt that the answer to the question "Does the country really support the development of IPFS?" must be yes.

From the perspective of a developer, it is reliable to build a private chain, but not a public chain. I think it is okay to connect ipfs to build a private chain. It can save a lot of operations when doing file storage services. Using It is as simple as redis. You just give it all the files, and it will return a unique identification to you. You can use this identification to retrieve files from ipfs in the future. It is very convenient. Very few large projects use ipfs now, but I I think it is enough for small and medium-sized projects, and there is no problem for large projects because it can expand nodes infinitely.

But the above is a private chain, which is under the same local area network or project distributed gateway. Next, let’s talk about the public chain, which is what everyone is using to mine fil. It’s terrible. . . .

There are many problems such as file inaccessibility, timeout, gateway unavailability, etc. The original idea of ??ipfs was good, and it may also be the first practical application project of the blockchain (unlike Ethereum, which is all currency issuance), but it is stable. The performance is so bad. If I transfer a file to the public chain, it will split the file and distribute it to the following nodes. However, sometimes some nodes are blocked by the network or offline, so I cannot access it at all. IPFS does it. It is storage, and its core is also storage, so if the stored things cannot be accessed, then the most basic problem has not been solved. Can this kind of thing be used? If you have doubts about what I said, you can download an ipfs client yourself. No need to connect, you can directly upload synchronized files, and then find an available gateway to access it and see how the experience is.

Of course my opinion is from a developer's perspective. Although its practical application is average, it does not affect its value, because knowledge is valuable. I can recommend everyone to watch the movie "Gold Mine". What it says is that stock investors don’t care whether the company really mines gold, but they want to make money through stocks, because everyone thinks if something is fake, then it is real.

IPFS is a system for distributed storage of data. It is called the Interstellar File System in Chinese. It is a kind of computer technology. Rather than saying whether this technology is reliable or not, it depends on the problem itself that we urgently need to solve.

For now, data storage has reached a very large scale. The global data storage volume in 2020 will be around 40Zb, and these data are all stored in Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent. data company. International data company IDC predicts that global data storage will reach 175ZB in 2025, which means there will be more possibilities on the data storage track in the future.

However, there have been some problems with the current data storage and distribution, because the current data is all centralized storage, and the data accessed by users is obtained from the central server. With the large-scale generation of data, issues such as user data security, privacy, and storage costs continue to arise during the processing of data by central servers.

In order to solve the above problems, IPFS was born. IPFS is a decentralized network. Of course, the development process will be slow, so you might as well give the new technology more time.

Reliable. I have to admit that the ipfs interstellar file system is a good blockchain project. At present, I am more optimistic about ipfs, which is a project suitable for long-term investment.