The Distributed Web, with InterPlanetary File System leading the way, is almost here

So I wrote a little article on medium on my username, DeFi Daily, feel free to check it out, but I did a little bit of a deep dive into this distributed web and how I really do feel like that is the future. I'm sure that if you've been in the ecosystem for any amount of time, you've heard about the interplanetary file system that's being used by unstoppable domains and a lot of the projects out there that are trying to decentralize the content that they want out there.So whether it be a website or really anything that distributes the ability to have a centralized hub where something can get attacked. Or the concentration of all the servers are in one place that can be denied from access to a country citizens. One of the most challenging low-level cybersecurity attacks affecting sites are DDOS attacks that hit a lot of sites with a just millions and millions of botted traffic, so abundant that they take servers down and it's a really inexpensive attack to do, but it can cost a lot to a business because they're really cumbersome to resolve.And I think one of the interesting things about this project Unstoppable Domains is at the root of it. They host their .crypto and .zil as ERC 20 tokens. Or it may be ERC-721, but they're non fungible, Ethereum tokens. And they give you access to certain domains. I think it's $40 and then you own it forever.And then the website itself would be redirected or hosted on the. Decentralized or distributed web using this interplanetary file system. And really the meat of what they do with the redirect is just through a Chrome extension. So essentially it allows them to bypass the need for ICANN. And I wonder about whether that'll be the future..A new internet layer, just kind of like how the dark web will use tour, which is really just a modified version of Firefox. Like whether the additional layers of future distributed web will be just a matter of integrating a extension. And then, you know what we know now to the.com and things that people are paying astronomical amounts for, because they think will be the foundation for the future of the internet. A wouldn't necessarily be so, and you haven't seen a lot of traction in the. Smaller TLDs or like a vanity TLDs with domains and, you know, people will gobble them up. And then, and certainly the unstoppable domains got a ton of traction.I see people gobbling up the .zil and .crypto domai names and I think on Twitter, you see a lot of .eth names too. So, whether that continues to hit traction, I don't know, but I do know that the core architecture behind it is substantially less complicated. It's still ambitious relative to a lot of the crypto projects out there, but really the power of the extension to transform the browser experience can not be understated.And that could be a large portion of the future. And you definitely are subject to the winds of Google and the people that have the browser. But if you have your own chromium version, like Brave does, then you have that open source architecture and you can build upon it. So perhaps an I can type a company will emerge, has its own core browser that people have to go to not out of speed or convenience but necessity. So I'm writing a few more of these articles so feel free to follow me at DeFi daily. And I'm trying to cover topics related to DeFi, DAOs, virtualization and the distribution of these files on the distributed web. So check it out.

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The Distributed Web, with InterPlanetary File System leading the way, is almost here is an episode from Altcoin Author by Rekt Tech.

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This episode was published on Sep 5, 2020.

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