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Episode 546: Dietrich Ayala on the InterPlanetary File System

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Is There a Limit on the IPFS Protocol?

The more copies you keep of a file, the better it is. There's no hard and fast rule on how many copies to keep but I think for use cases that could come down. It actually probably would start looking like global CDN availability points of presence. People who are operating these nodes at scale, this is really something that is not nearly as formalized and as well trodden ground as cloud distribution and publishing and scaling today with HTTP web. They were seeing a lot of interesting innovations around bulk uploads, peer-to-peer network in one and scaling that sometimes they still take some magic and some dark arts or hanging out with other IPFAS operators. You want to put

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