Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
Somehow, this is the first time I've heard of IPFS. Seems really awesome! From a total novice standpoint, can someone help me understand:<p>>With IPFS, every single block of data stored in the system is addressed by a cryptographic hash of its contents, i.e., a long string of letters and numbers that is unique to that block. When you want a piece of data in IPFS, you request it by its hash. So rather than asking the network “get me the content stored at 93.184.216.34,” you ask “get me the content that has a hash value of QmXnnyufdzAWL5CqZ2RnSNgPbvCc1ALT73s6epPrRnZ1Xy.”<p>It seems like you must know the "URL" of the "website" you want to visit (files in IPFS) beforehand? But in the case of IPFS, there's no like, DNS service, so you can't type "www.google.com." Basically, it'd be like if to navigate the modern internet, you'd need to know the IP address of whatever site you visit? Is that true of IPFS? Is there any way around that?<p>It seems like a strong limitation, unless someone can make some sort of IPFS search engine that happens to hash out at QN000000000000000000000 or some really memorizable hash... which seems extremely unlikely!