Intro to IPLD with Filecoin

On Tuesday 3rd August we were delighted to host Daniel Martí from Protocol Labs in the fifth Encode Filecoin Club event, introducing students and hackers to IPLD. A huge thanks to Daniel for his great presentation!

About Filecoin
Filecoin is a decentralized storage network designed to "store humanity's most important information" through an open-source cloud storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency. A powerful and dynamic distributed cloud data storage network, the Filecoin network achieves staggering economies of scale by allowing anyone to participate as a storage provider and monetize their open hard drive space.

About Filecoin Club
Encode Filecoin Club is a nine-month programme in collaboration with Filecoin and IPFS. Our newest Club will consist of three stages - a Filecoin education series, a Filecoin-dedicated hackathon and a follow-up accelerator.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Agenda
1:24 Motivation- Why IPLD?
3:23 IPFS & IPLD
6:41 Fundamental Concepts
17:20 Questions
19:42 Beyond File Data with IPLD
31:15 Example
35:10 Questions
37:31 Conclusion

[montywilliams]

Great tutorial 👌 👍 👏 enjoyed every slide!

[dogaarmangil]

24:17 ❝How would you tell if it's a link or a string?❞ JSON-LD is a W3C specification that addresses that very issue. So one answer to this question would be to make DAG-JSON JSON-LD-conformant, and to define a linked data vocabulary that defines the datatypes used in DAG-JSON (or to use an existing vocabulary if it does the job).

[Matthias]

Fix that ending audio volume. Almost blew my ears out