Hypercore: Lego Blocks for P2P Apps (S03E09)

The Technium

Hypercore is a set of building blocks to build distributed peer-to-peer applications. It provides a variety of data structures, as well as a discovery mechanism to share data between peers. It is a suite of tools that are the Lego blocks to build peer-to-peer apps.

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:02:16] What is Hypercore?
[00:12:58] HyperDrive: A P2P File System
[00:17:45] IPFS vs Hypercore
[00:21:01] Bitfinex is using HyperBee
[00:23:20] A Web of Data vs. Web of Pages
[00:27:19] P2P Data Structures: Better Than P2P Files
[00:29:52] IOT: a perfect candidate for decentralization?
[00:34:30] P2P Databases for Civic Good
[00:39:41] P2P Databases for Scientific Good
[00:55:08] Impediments to adoption
[01:03:54] Is this too futuristic even for us?
[01:12:59] Outros

Resources:
[How the Hypercore Protocol Works](https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/)
[Hypercore Protocol](https://hypercore-protocol.org/)
[Dat Ecosystem](https://dat-ecosystem.org/)
[On Dat://](https://www.kickscondor.com/on-dat)
[What are the differences between IPFS and hyperdrive?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44859200/what-are-the-differences-between-ipfs-and-hyperdrive)
[why-hypercore/FAQ.md at master · tradle/why-hypercore](https://github.com/tradle/why-hypercore/blob/master/FAQ.md)
[Dripline: Taking the Mauve Pill: Exploring Alternatives to the Centralized Web](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-1/)
[Dripline: Finding friends and staying safe: comparing peer discoverability and security in p2p networks](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-3/)
[Dripline: Data Fast and Slow: Exploring Data Models and Mutability](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-2/)
[Thinking about Filesystems, Databases, and Hypercores](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/thinking-about-filesystems-databases-and-hypercores-85de9d52d5b0)
[Productizing P2P](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a)
https://github.com/automerge/pushpin
https://github.com/kickscondor/duxtape

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