BZZ mining, BTT mining and IPFS mining are all distributed storage. What's the difference between them? A few days ago, IPFS was hyped up with high attention. The concept of distributed storage was also introduced. Where there are topics, there must be stories. The popularity of a concept will inevitably lead to more topics. What are BZZ, BTT and IPFS? Micron Network will give you a brief overview today.

What is BTT?

BTT, a BitTorrent incentive currency, is a mobile currency in Chinese. BitTorrent is a point-to-point distributed communication protocol that was born in 2001. It uses efficient software distribution systems and point-to-point technology to share a large number of files (such as movies or TV programs), and allows each user to provide upload services like a network reallocation node.

What is BZZ?

As a part of Swarm and the official Ethereum project, it can run Swarm nodes and connect to the Swarm network. Just like running Ethereum nodes, it can divide files into several blocks for volunteers to store. Swarm's main goal is to provide completely decentralized and redundant storage of Ethereum public records, especially DApp storage and distribution of code and data and blockchain data. In order to achieve the purposes of domain name resolution (ENS), service payment and content availability assurance, the goal is to deeply integrate with the DevP2P multi protocol network layer of Ethereum and the blockchain of Ethereum.

What is IPFS?

IPFS is the abbreviation of Inter Planetary File System. Its Chinese name is Interplanetary File System. It is a network transmission protocol for distributed storage and shared files. This method encrypts servers distributed in different nodes around the world and stores them in slices. Each server only stores part of the encrypted information to ensure the privacy and security of the information. If the information needs to be downloaded according to the principle of nearest server, the crowded downloading information of the same server can be avoided, At the same time, a piece of information can be restored to complete information through programming algorithm after downloading, so as to ensure the permanent storage of information.

What are these three?

These three projects are all developed based on the concept of distributed storage. All of them store the original data in different network spaces in a fragmented way. There are no high cost, privacy, vulnerability and many other problems caused by the centralization of http. In addition, it is convenient to download and upload data quickly, and the data can be stored permanently.

What is the difference between them?

The earliest BTT was acquired by the Tron Foundation in 2001 and 2018. It can be said that this storage concept was put forward earlier, which has had a profound impact on the Internet. At the peak of 2006, BT traffic even accounted for 70% of the entire network traffic. However, almost all download software currently used is based on BT improvements, such as Thunderbolt, BT Seed, etc.

The BZZ webcast was promoted by Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke, the founders of Ethereum. Since they have been busy with the promotion of Ethereum projects, they have not taken much action before. Recently, the BZZ webcast appeared because the distributed storage project has been busy with the promotion of Ethereum projects. The logic of BZZ is also distributed and stored in the network in the form of shards. The stored data is mainly used for completely decentralized and redundant Ethereum public records. This is a project based on the Ethereum method to solve the Ethereum problem, which can be regarded as an Ethereum problem.

IPFS is a concept put forward by Juan Bennett after he founded the protocol laboratory in 2014. He believes that the data of the APP, website, and circle of friends we use now are stored in a centralized server cluster, and then accessed through URL, URI, and domain name system location resources. It is not only poor in security, but also not as slow as private downloads. Therefore, we need to create a distributed network transmission protocol for storing and sharing files. This protocol uses the content addressable peer-to-peer hypermedia distribution protocol to calculate a hash value from the content of a resource. The corresponding information is unique and secure, and the resources uploaded do not duplicate the network, thus saving network space. This project has been launched in October 2020. At present, 5 EIPs have been stored in the whole network. The distributed storage of IPFS is more oriented to users' daily use scenarios. At present, IPFS has a large number of IPFS applications, storing a large number of medical, financial, cultural and other favorable data for human development in the future.

In the blockchain industry, new projects are launched, launched and publicized every day, some of which are valuable, while others are just conceptual. As a company focusing on IPFS distributed storage, we believe that IPFS will solve some problems in data storage at present, and we will also continue to carry out technical research and exploration in this regard. Here again, except for Filecoin&IPFS, we will not participate in any blockchain project at present, and please make a good screening in the process of understanding the project.

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