so i wanted to upload the upcoming video for the steemian crowdfunded and crowdsourced ‘person behind the blog’ to IPFS as well, actually d-tube but i don’t have enough steem right now to create a new account but i’m working on it it. i don’t want to use my own account to upload videos there right now, rather have them on a separate account.
but i really wanted to see what this IPFS was about and how easy it was to setup locally on my own machine, turns out really easy and it even comes with a cool localhost gui so you can see all the peer to peer connections you are maybe globally to the network of other machines. i’m kinda interested in uploading the video through that so i’ll do another video once i’ve got the video ready to go, just waiting on some last people to send in videos and we will be in business.
IPFS looks really cool. i can certainly see myself building a server rack with plenty of diskspace connected to a gigabit backhaul and helping out the distributed effort of sharing videos globally, it ain’t gonna be no youtube loading experience in the short term but it’s certainly got potentially, especially if this in some way used other blockchains, something like golem to run an instance of some kind of transcoder that could re-code on request a video down to the connection and location where you roughly were.
anyway, kinda bad ass.