The Side Effects of the HTTP Web

Right now you don't even need a CloudFlare account to be able to do that. Let's say you install an IPFS node on your desktop computer today or laptop or whatever and you add a file there. You can ask CloudFlare's gateway for it and it will connect to the IPFS public network, which is a distributed hash table. And because the address that you asked for is cryptographically verifiable, it is basically a SHA-256 hash with some added metadata.