(Article from : dameng info)

I want to ask on behalf of a lot of novices, what is IPFS? Can you explain it in a simple and easy to understand way?

Fu Xiannong: Of course. I’ll do my best to make it simple.

First, IPFS is a Peer to Peer (P2P) network protocol.

We all know that our modern internet is composed of several large centralized servers. If we want to download something, we have to get it from these servers. For instance, to download a video, we can go to a popular streaming site and view all kinds of trending videos. Usually the video is deleted or idle as soon as we finish watching it.

So, what does IPFS’ peer-to-peer network mean? It means that if someone else has seen the video, then I don’t need to go directly to the streaming site, I can download it directly from them.

This way, file transmission is transformed from a centralized server to a peer-to-peer network that’s shared by everyone.