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Would that network be able to support it though? It's based on voluntary sharing.
Got to publish my "better" protocol ๐ , after the summer, promise ๐!
It's been up and running for years. The uses I've come across is as a network of geo located file caching proxies. You need to have your own server up to seed the proxy instances, but then they will serve for future access until it is cleaned out from the cache.
I'm looking forward to it.
I know, I heard about it in 2016, but it's still made up by volunteers so that's why I wonder if it can take a big video-download hit. How resilient is it when 500 persons try to see that cat video at the same time?
Edit: IPFS stores data by hash which means one or just a few "neighbour" nodes will share that example cat video. It's not super scalable IMO.