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IPFS and DTUBE

In this episode I talk about the Inter Planetary File System and Decentralized video platform D.TUBE

IPFS and DTUBE

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Hey, what's going on? Thanks so much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. My name is Billy Newman, I'm coming to you today to talk about a couple of things that have been on my mind recently I've been, I've been kind of getting into some some different internet technology stuff. What was it talking about this last time, like some open source software and some of the Linux distribution stuff that I was interested in checking out, that's been going well, I've been checking out this Linux stuff, I've been checking out a few different few different open source media software packages that are out there. I talked about that a bit last time. But what that's kind of progressed into is what I can do with some of those media packages. So what I've been checking out is this thing called the ipfs, which is probably what I'll focus on for a bit today in this podcast, and then some of the ideas and the concepts that are around it, I'm really nascent in kind of researching it and discovering it. And so I hope it's something that sort of becomes a little bit more fruitful over time of, you know, something of interest that I'm able to learn about a bit more. But as a field of like web development or a field of media work that I might do, I think it's really interesting to start getting into the idea of the ipfs, which is the interplanetary file system, sensor interest or well, like, what does that mean interplanetary What is this about? This doesn't have to do with anything with me, I guess it's supposed to replace HTTP or an HTTPS. So the hypertext transport protocol that's used to deliver web pages over the internet is starting to be not starting to be replaced.

But there is a project in place called ipfs. The interplanetary file system that's supposed to kind of modify or change some of the aspects of the hypertext transport protocol, to be more decentralized is the big idea. So I think the idea was that if ever there was to be a string of satellites, or bases that were interplanetary, the system of networking that we have right now really wouldn't be effective for that, because we'd have big breaks in the chain, and there'd be big disintermediation of data that was able to get out. So it wouldn't be able to be based on the hub system that we have right now, where you would be a spoke out on the line, you'd contact the hub, and then that that would kind of feed back out to the other spokes on the line. This decentralized model is supposed to be I guess, more efficient where the connections are made on the periphery of the system instead of centralizing to the hub. So that means that then if there's a route of connected devices, it's supposed to remain connected. That's what we're talking about mesh networking, which is a little bit different than the network protocol system that they're talking about. I'm still pretty lost on how technically ipfs is enacted or used. But the way I do kind of understand it, well is similar to the the model that I explained a minute ago of kind of disintermediation, but there's also seems to be some kind of attachment to distributed hash tables, and the blockchain too.

So there's a blockchain stuff, there's like what we know about Bitcoin and sort of how people use cryptocurrencies. But a lot of this stuff with the ipfs house has to do with cryptography, or it's like setting up a, I don't, I don't even know the stages to explain it. But I think that's like how you're verifying your identity, when you're connecting to each other is through like a cryptographic system, or you know, like having a key, you have a key and you connect to a node or something like that. There's a, I think it started, you can go to like ipfs probably.org, or search ipfs. And you can find a lot of information about it, you can run it on your computer, that's I think how you'd have to start is there's different levels of complexity, I'll kind of start with the original one, which was installing it over terminal, either on your Mac computer, Linux computer, or you can install like a repository and probably run it on a Windows computer and some other way. I think I am working on installing it through terminal to run an ipfs node on my machine, which I guess means that sort of like BitTorrent, I would have a little bit of information of hash table on my computer and peers would connect to me to get that information. But it's also connecting to other information, other peers that are on the network. And this means that, I guess, I guess those packets of data are pulled from different sources. So that kind of assembles it,

apparently, it saves a lot of bandwidth. And it sort of makes it much more difficult for a file to be disappeared from the hub of the network because it's disintermediated. At the at the edges of the network. I don't know it's kind of interesting. So apparently, you can reassemble data, if parts of it start to go out. There's a whole bunch of different pieces to it. They're sort of interesting, but as I'm looking at, I'm looking at these daps these decentralized apps, which is what I know more about that. So what you do is you install ipfs it's running a node on your computer and then you have peers connecting to that node. We have a Little bit of data being transacted as you are part of the service of the network as you serve it to others. And as you interact with it to others, like appear on the network, really interesting stuff. I wish I knew more about higher level networking, so I could explain it better but, but how this is kind of working for me is, I've been trying to Well, I downloaded Orion, which is what I should say. So instead of running the whole ipfs system, within the command line, which is a little bit complicated, I'm interested in the command line stuff. And I want to get that going. I think that's the more native way to do it. But I'm not really set up to do that on my my working computer right now. And it's not going to be set up as a server. So I have another machine that I want to get going, it's going to be an IP Fs server, that's, that's me running like all the time, that might be a project that I'm trying to put together pretty soon. So that would be put put together on the more the more permanent basis of kind of running the node on the system. But there is this other way that's much more user friendly, which is downloading a piece of software called Orion. It's kinda interesting, the interplanetary file system sort of has this whole star theme with some of the stuff out there.

But the this application called Orion is, is I don't know if it's a browser or a peer to peer service within ipfs. But you can, you can get a key for another peer. And then you can connect to that peer and download files that have been published as files to the blockchain or to, to that, I don't know, to the, to the network to the ipfs network. So it's kind of interesting, I can do it. But I guess it kind of contains a lot of what you would have to do by running the ipfs node in Terminal and it kind of contains that within an application. So you have a graphical user interface, you can see some of the information and see some of your bandwidth usage and kind of what's going on there kind of information about that online. But I've been super interested in that. The other side of that, which I was just starting to bring up a minute ago was sort of all these decentralized applications that are starting to be built on using the ipfs. And this decentralized web platform system. So this is another area that's kind of on top of it, but I also don't understand very well, but I'm trying to dig into and trying to put out media lies.

So maybe I don't know if I've really talked about Bitcoin in the past or cryptocurrencies. I understand that they'll exist. I understand. It's interesting. I appreciate them. I haven't really invested my time or money into into the blockchain or cryptocurrency Bitcoin stuff yet, but I do think the blockchain information is really cool. And I think that what they're doing with this decentralized media stuff is really interesting. And I'm trying to push into that. How do I how do I publish a video to the blockchain? How do I publish a photograph to the blockchain? Or how do I publish journalism or statement arriving to the blockchain? That's all really interesting. So I've been checking out the steam blockchain and the steam it account system. So I got a steam it account. And I've created a D tube account by using this the steam and account as a big truck drives by. So this steam ID account is is based in the steam blockchain where you get steam coin. So pieces of this I don't understand, obviously, but apparently with this, so I have my account I have, it's all decentralized.

So there's no like password recovery stuff. They tell you this a bunch of times, but they have this like huge, long crypto key that Yep, that's your password to your account. And the only you have it, and I guess no one else does. And I guess that's how you get in and get out. But it's really interesting how those system works, but there's no like log files, or there's no way for the company to get me logged back into my account. Because I guess, I guess I still don't even understand how it works. But apparently there isn't one out there. So I have this crypto key, I log in to my D tube account using the steam it account information. But D tube is YouTube, it's really interesting. It's pretty cool. It looks a lot like YouTube, it kind of runs pretty wonky. I think it only uploads videos at 480 dpi. But it puts it on the ipfs

network. And you can go up and embed a video that is stored in on the web and accessible just in any web browser. And and you can play back in any web browser, but it just is on the interplanetary. It's on the interplanetary file system, or it's on the ipfs network. So that's all pretty cool. So there's there's D two, which is like YouTube. And then there's also this other one called D sounds dot audio that I'm checking out. This is a this is a service that's a lot like SoundCloud where you can put up just different different mp3 or waves. And it sort of shows your album art with a long a long run of the sound file. And you can kind of click into it wherever you'd like to play it from. But it seems like there's a number of musicians and DJs starting to use these sort of systems. But really in a big way. They are not used very much. There's there's not as much activity on them as you might think, or you know, they're kind of early systems and they're all sort of decentralized. So it's kind of interesting starting to interact with the communities that are out there. And some of the different people are trying to put up a bit more content than others. But there's also, I guess, barely a way to make money on these, these social blockchain systems on Steam, like views or likes or retweets or things like that, apparently are evaluated to some extent. So that costs you a bit of coin that you have a bit of this crypto the steam coin that you'd have.

And then that those transactions I guess add up for those videos or those popular videos and then you so I've been talking about cryptocurrencies and steam coin and then the batteries on my record or quit. So that's probably going to be the end of the podcast today. But I just wanted to do a couple of seconds to wrap it up. While I'm sitting you now in the coffee shop, trying to edit that podcast back together. But yeah, I'm working with steam coin stuff right now trying to get some media on D tube and D sound audio, along with another service ending called PIPA, which is like Twitter is a few other things I'm trying to look into. But I'll probably follow up with you on the next couple podcasts about some of the stuff that I'm looking into related to daps and decentralized utilities on the ipfs things that listening to this podcast, with

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