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Regarding the other post I am lucky to know neiman personally.

Neiman is a PhD in mathematics and idealist. The solution he wants goes beyond just hosting a decentralized blog.

As far as ENS, I’m a fan. Though it’s too bad someone registered your well known business name you can always import your DNS into the ENS protocol (ENS is not the .eth extension, rather .eth is the native ENS blockchain extension but is reverse compatible with DNS).

Going back to neiman, for a time he was working on his own naming protocol named Woolball. Might be a fun read for you: https://neiman.eth.limo/2022-10-25/Woolball_a_name_system_wi...

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wslh2y ago

Beyond your ad-hominem criticism on Neiman. I have used IPFS professionally and it is very slow. This issue is well known and gives an objective metric for the tool beyond idealisms. Extremely easy to check: [1] [2].

BTW, I come out with the paper "Is IPFS Ready for Decentralized Video Streaming?" [3] that could be an interesting read.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ipfs+performance&hl=en&...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=ipfs+performance+site%3Aredd...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39214634

throwawaycitiesOP2y ago

>ad-hominem criticism on Neiman

What a bizarre thing to say.

Neiman is a friend and inspiration. I specifically said I’m lucky to know him personally.

Calling him an idealist isn’t an attack, it’s admirable.

IPFS is fine for hosting blogs and static websites, I have 50 IPFS websites using a pinning service neiman cofounded. However, his blog post speaks for itself and his considerations are greater than whether IPFS/IPNS can host a blog.

Nice work on your paper.

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