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Facts from IPFS Whitepaper:

  • It is a Distributed System
  • It uses a Distributed Hash Table
  • Rewards nodes that contribute to each other, punishing leechers.
  • Prioritizes rarest pieces of a file. Tracks availability of file pieces.
  • Vulnerable to some exploitative bandwidth sharing strategies.
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