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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a distributed/P2P content and identity-addressed hypermedia distribution protocol.

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The InterPlanetary File System is a hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. It enables the creation of completely distributed applications.

IPFS aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open by connecting all computing devices with the same system of files.

Latest release of IPFS is v0.9.0. Read more about the latest release at https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/releases

IPFS official documentation: https://docs.ipfs.io/

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How recreate a hash digest of a multihash in IPFS

Assuming I'm adding data to IPFS like this: $ echo Hello World | ipfs add This will give me QmWATWQ7fVPP2EFGu71UkfnqhYXDYH566qy47CnJDgvs8u - a CID which is a Base58 encoded Multihash. Converting it to Base16, tells me that the hash digest for what…
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`ipfs swarm connect:` connect failure: dial attempt failed: context deadline exceeded

I am using IPFS version 0.4.4. My goal is to connect two peers in order to prevent IPFS peer to halt on reading an IPFS-hash from the shared peer. In order to achieve it, I am using ipfs swarm connect to connect peer-A to peer-B, where peer-B can…
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Programmatically check data transfer on IPFS

We are building a desktop app, on Electron, to share media on IPFS. We want to incentivize the people, who either by an IPFS add or pin, make data available to other users and in effect are "seeding" the data. We want to track how much data is being…
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How to stop ipfs daemon?(ctrl+c works only when you are inside daemon cmd prompt). Need solution to make it work from other cmd prompts as well

Just got started with ipfs. after we do $ipfs daemon and then i reach out to localhost:5001/webui (which shows connection refused. checked proxy and evrything). The daemon escapes the cmd, but still running in background. when we do $ipfs swarm…
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IPFS can't really enforce nodes to delete an uploaded file, isn't that a problem?

As this decentralisation wave is taking place around the digital world, I was wondering how can you remove some content that you just uploaded on a decentralized network. As I understand, more and more people want to have decentralized services,…
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How to use IPFS to store application state (as a backend for dApp)?

I am just starting with IPFS and Ethereum. We are building a dApp (mobile) and planning to replace the standard API & DB layer with IPFS and Ethereum. So, after lots of reading I have the following questions, Making dApp directly talk to IPFS (via…
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Do I need the IPFS daemon to upload files from a browser?

I'm working on this project using IPFS and I'm trying to create a website that allows users to upload files directly from their browser to IPFS. My goal was that the website would be a front-end website but whenever I add a file to IPFS and I check…
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Search for file in IPFS by its filename?

Is there a way to search for files in IPFS by its filename? If I want for example search for a subject in IPFS, I suppose this subject is in the filename like some-subject.pdf, then, there is a way to retrieve the hashes of the files containing the…
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How IPFS search files?

In order to find the file in IPFS network by its hash, we should ask the adjacent nodes - "Do you have the file with hash H(F)?" and if not, then they propagate the question further. How IPFS resolve the issue in case of plurality of this kind of…
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How to play video from ipfs url using avplayer in swift

I have an ipfs encrypted video URL. I am not able to play video in avplayer but URL plays well in webview. here is URL: https://ipfs.moralis.io:2053/ipfs/QmUjWnQZVVNmTSVak2QDhTxMkn3dPQozxawa1sm3jE5bLr let currentURL = URL(string:…
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get file type after downloading from IPFS

I'm using ipfs to download files... but ipfs does not have filenames or extensions. How can I properly set the extension for the saved file, based on the downloaded data?
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Upload files under same CID to IPFS

I'm looking to create an NFT project with 10k pieces, each piece should be made available as soon as the token was minted, therefore I want to call upload the JSON object to IPFS under the same hash as I've seen in other projects. This means that…
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Is it possible to host Node JS applications to IPFS? Possibly through Fleek?

Is it possible to host Node JS applications to IPFS? Possibly through Fleek? I know it's possible to host React JS app on IPFSA Using Fleek, but is it possible to host or run a Node server on IPFS, or is there any other decentralized way to host a…
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File is not showing up in NFT storage on IPFS

I uploaded file to NFT Storage I can see file list in https://nft.storage/files/ but if I clicked CID links, I get error ipfs cat /ipfs/bafyreiayui2us6fpowl42vqwmjrntpewhqpfkbgcak6pt4gkpz55z2o3se/: unknown node type My code is as below const {…
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IPFS and Editing Permissions

I just uploaded a folder of 5 images to IPFS (using the Mac Desktop IPFS Client App, so it was a very simple drag and drop operation.) So being that I’m the one that created and published this folder, does that mean that I’m the only one that’s…
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