The Chinese translation of IPFS is the interplanetary file system, which is the underlying Internet protocol for hard disk sharing, and is mainly used to access data. Simply put, IPFS can create a storage network that allows more people to earn income while sharing idle storage space.
This kind of storage mode in which everyone can participate in the shared hard disk is called distributed storage. Why do we need this distributed storage technology? You know, today's Internet technology actually has three parts, namely computing power, storage and broadband. Storage in this part can be said to be the foundation of the entire Internet.
IPFS and blockchain are a perfect combination. We can use IPFS to handle large amounts of data, putting immutable and permanent IPFS links into blockchain transactions without putting the data itself into the blockchain.
After all, the essence of the blockchain is a distributed ledger, and one of its bottlenecks is the storage capacity of the ledger. Currently, the biggest problem with most public chains is that they cannot store large amounts of data on their own chains.
The advantage of IPFS is that it can uniformly store and distribute high-activity files in the public sector, thereby saving storage space and bandwidth, and providing a stable and high-speed distribution channel. Due to the many advantages of IPFS, it is very likely to trigger a revolution in the underlying technology of network communication in the future, replacing http as the basic network protocol.
There are more than 100 projects using IPFS to store data and files in the blockchain, and it has become one of the important infrastructures of the decentralized network.
Compared with the traditional HTTP centralized storage technology, the IPFS distributed storage technology is faster, safer, and lower in storage cost, and as time goes by, more and more companies or enterprises use the IPFS distributed storage technology, It will only be faster, safer and cheaper.
Therefore, with the advent of the 5G era and the explosive growth of data, IPFS distributed storage technology will replace the current storage technology in the future.