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ProbeLab
14 days ago
Week 18 2026 ProbeLab's update on the most notable results on
@ipfs.tech
from the past few weeks is here:
discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelabs-...
Follow all the action at:
probelab.io
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ProbeLab's Notable IPFS Performance Results - Week 18, 2026
After a longer than usual gap, and following up from our previous report in Week 10, 2026 on the notable results on IPFSโs performance ( ProbeLab's Notable IPFS Performance Results - Week 10, 2026 ), ...
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelabs-notable-ipfs-performance-results-week-18-2026/20107
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Russ Cox
about 1 month ago
Partial blame to Microsoft and Zoom for normalizing the need to install new software just to make video calls, despite browsers being perfectly capable. They make it extra hard to even find the web-only links.
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved โฆ
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
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ProbeLab
about 2 months ago
If you've noticed
@ipfs.tech
's upload/publish performance is so much faster lately, wonder no more! ProbeLab's Optimistic Provide is finally in production and it's working like a charm! Check how and why at:
probelab.io/blog/optimis...
Here's how big the improvement has been!
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ProbeLab
about 2 months ago
Check out ProbeLab's update on the most notable results on
@ipfs.tech
from the past few weeks here:
discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelabs-...
and, as usual, follow all the action at:
probelab.io
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ProbeLab's Notable IPFS Performance Results - Week 10, 2026
Here is ProbeLabโs update on the state of the IPFS network over the past few weeks (20th Feb to 12th March). The intention of these reports is to direct efforts to parts of the protocol that need atte...
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelabs-notable-ipfs-performance-results-week-10-2026/20064
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ProbeLab
2 months ago
At ProbeLab, we just launched an ENR viewer! The tool allows to decode and inspect
@ethereum.org
Node Records. Inserting your ENR will give information about your nodeโs ID, public key, IP address, ports, and GeoIP, hosting provider. Check it out at:
probelab.io/enr-viewer/
.
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Tangled
2 months ago
today, we're announcing our โฌ3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels. read more on what's next:
blog.tangled.org/seed
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announcing our โฌ3,8M seed round
and more on what's next
https://blog.tangled.org/seed
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ProbeLab
3 months ago
We crawled the Monero P2P network and here's what we found: - 16,454 reachable nodes - 81.6% flagged as spy nodes - 80%+ running on a single cloud provider (Spruce Creek) Monero's transaction privacy is strong but its P2P layer tells a different story. Full methodology and data in:
bit.ly/40BzFgh
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Peering into Privacy: A Deep Dive into the Monero Network Topology
Mapping Monero's P2P network: 16,000 nodes, one dominant provider, and a lot of spy nodes.
https://bit.ly/40BzFgh
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Eli Mallon
3 months ago
Excited to announce our collaboration with
@ipfs.tech
and
https://dasl.ing
on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.
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S2PA and MUXL: Bringing Video to Content-Addressed Systems
https://blog.stream.place/3mfd2zatm4c2s
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ProbeLab
3 months ago
ProbeLab has improved its tooling to distinguish between different service classes for requests that hit the traditional
@ipfs.tech
(
ipfs.io
and
dweb.link
) gateways. Follow the action at:
probelab.io/ipfs/gateway...
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ProbeLab
3 months ago
Exciting news from the ProbeLab team! We've just added Monero crawling functionality to Nebula, our network-agnostic P2P crawler! ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ Measuring privacy-centric networks like Monero is notoriously difficult, but Nebula can now do the following:
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Ian Davis
3 months ago
Pleased to say I started back with
@probelab.io
today on a part time basis.
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ProbeLab
3 months ago
As part of ProbeLab's revamp of
@ipfs.tech
metrics, we now have data on the performance of traditional, as well as service worker gateways! Read more at:
probelab.io/blog/ipfs-ga...
and head over to
probelab.io/ipfs/gateways/
for all the dashboards!
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IPFS Gateway Performance Measurements
The ProbeLab team has been busy building new IPFS Gateway performance measurements
https://probelab.io/blog/ipfs-gateway-performance-measurements/
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Teresa Bรผcker
3 months ago
Wann genau sind einige der Qualitรคtsmedien eigentlich so kaputtgegangen? Mit einem Politiker einer in Teilen rechtsextremen Partei darรผber reden, ob Deutschland nicht auch Faschismus gut tรคte. I have no words.
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Eurosky Social
5 months ago
Announcing
eurosky.social
accounts - launching January 2026. โ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative โ Hosted on European cloud โ Governed by European law
www.eurosky.social/register
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Register for a eurosky.social account - one web identity, dozens of apps โ eurosky
https://www.eurosky.social/register
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ProbeLab
3 months ago
With the necessary slight delay, here's a thorough review of ProbeLab's activity and achievements in 2025 and our focus areas for 2026:
probelab.io/blog/probela...
. Looking forward to work with more networks and enhance the P2P layer of decentralised blockchain networks!
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ProbeLab's 2025 Review and 2026 Outlook
What we've achieved in 2025 and what we're targeting in 2026
https://probelab.io/blog/probelabs-2025-review-and-2026-outlook/
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Mosh Lee
3 months ago
Good morning
#FOSDEM
! I'll be kicking off in the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @ 9:05a today with tales of
@ipfs.tech
and our โฅ๏ธ/๐ฟ affair with web browsers.
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
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FOSDEM 2026 - Bringing Decentralization to Your Doorstep: 5 Years in Browsers
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TRQ9LV-decentralized-to-doorsteps/
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yiannis
3 months ago
Here's ProbeLab's summary on the highlights and notable results for the
@ipfs.tech
network for the past few weeks:
discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelabs-...
Follow all the action at:
probelab.io
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ProbeLab Analytics
Monitoring and analytics for 9+ Web3 networks. Explore network topology, bootstrapper health, client diversity, and protocol metrics across IPFS, Ethereum, Filecoin, and more.
https://probelab.io
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ProbeLab
4 months ago
New metrics on
@ipfs.tech
just landed on
probelab.io
! Among others, check Kubo e2e performance, number of daily unique CIDs on the Amino DHT, and IPNI status. Check more details at:
discuss.ipfs.tech/t/probelab-s...
. Check all of this and more at:
probelab.io/ipfs/
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ProbeLab Analytics
Monitoring and analytics for 9+ Web3 networks. Explore network topology, bootstrapper health, client diversity, and protocol metrics across IPFS, Ethereum, Filecoin, and more.
http://probelab.io
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ProbeLab
4 months ago
ICYMI, ProbeLab has launched a brand new website to showcase the metrics we're publishing for
@ipfs.tech
,
@ethereum.bsky.social
,
@filecoin.bsky.social
,
@polkadot.bsky.social
, Gnosis, Celestia, Optimism, Base, Avail, with several more coming soon! Head to:
probelab.io
to see what's new!
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ProbeLab Analytics
Monitoring and analytics for 9+ Web3 networks. Explore network topology, bootstrapper health, client diversity, and protocol metrics across IPFS, Ethereum, Filecoin, and more.
http://probelab.io
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Robin Berjon
4 months ago
A lot happened in content addressing in 2025. Like, a lot. The IPFS Foundation wrote up a summary for your enjoyment!
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
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Content-Addressing: 2025 In Review
It's hard to believe that it was 2025 only two weeks ago, but all the same we'd like to wrap the year up tidily and look back at what happened in content addressing leading up to 2026! "Content addre...
https://ipfsfoundation.org/content-addressing-2025-in-review/
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Interplanetary Shipyard
5 months ago
You can finally self-host IPFS at home ๐ โจ Major updates to Kubo, Boxo, and Helia. DHT Provide Sweep, AutoTLS, HTTP retrieval. Here's everything we shipped in 2025:
ipshipyard.com/blog/2025-sh...
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Shipyard 2025: Bringing IPFS Home
Seven Kubo releases, dozens of improvements across Rainbow, Desktop, WebUI, Companion, Helia, and the broader stack. The theme: making self-hosted IPFS practical on regular hardware. Highlights includ...
https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2025-shipyard-ipfs-year-in-review/
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Julian Gruber
6 months ago
www.eurosky.social
"This is the next era of social mediaโbuilt in Europe, run on our cloud, ruled by our laws. Users choose the content. Businesses control their brand environment. People control the algorithms. Not Big Tech. Not ever."
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https://www.eurosky.social/
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Iroh
8 months ago
Sup frens I have a DHT protocol now:
www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-wr...
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A DHT for iroh - Part 1, The Protocol
Let's write a DHT for iroh
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-write-a-dht-1
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ProbeLab
8 months ago
The ProbeLab team participates in FIL-rPGF Round 3 to showcase the extensive set of results that we've been producing for the Filecoin network. Thanks to
@protocollabs.bsky.social
@fil.org
LotusPond Association for supporting this round. Check our extensive results at:
probelab.io
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Filippo Valsorda
10 months ago
We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.
https://go.dev/blog/fips140
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Filippo Valsorda
11 months ago
I wish we had spaces to collaborate on technical work where being a jerk was just not allowed. Like, actual proper fearless moderation. Your reply starts with "No." on its own line? Two weeks ban. Learn to behave. You go on a tear about another participant? One year ban. No warning. Bye.
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Moritz Schubotz
11 months ago
@dtrautwein.eu
explains how to count nodes
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Baselight
about 1 year ago
Baselight is now open for everyone! Come see structured data like you never have before.
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ProbeLab
about 1 year ago
New data drop from the ProbeLab team! We re-ran our Optimism Superchain composition analysis โ and total nodes tripled since Nov 2024. Base leads the mainnet pack, Europeโs node share grows, and infra diversity widens. ๐โจ Full breakdown ๐
www.probelab.network/blog/optimis...
#Superchain
#OPStack
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Insights into Optimismโs Chain Composition [Repeated]
We're looking into how the Superchain has evolved during the last five months.
https://www.probelab.network/blog/optimism-chain-composition-repeated
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Baselight
about 1 year ago
Youโve never seen blockchain data like this before, literally! For the first time ever, Baselight &
@probelab.io
are making onchain infrastructure insights public, so builders can monitor, analyze, and scale decentralized systems. Query
@ethereum.bsky.social
,
@filecoin.io
, Polkadot and more!
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Jorge Soares
about 1 year ago
A pleasure to work with
@yiannisbot.bsky.social
,
@dtrautwein.eu
, and the
@probelab.io
team to enable analysis of unique blockchain and decentralised network data.
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Go
about 1 year ago
Testing concurrent programs can be difficult and error prone. We're experimenting with a new approach to try to make this easier and more reliable. Interested? Read more at
go.dev/blog/synctest
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Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest - The Go Programming Language
Go 1.24 contains an experimental package to aid in testing concurrent code.
https://go.dev/blog/synctest
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Iroh
over 1 year ago
If you've always wanted to dive into
#p2p
, now is the best time! One of my devs has prepared a 40+min detailed walkthrough of building a basic
#rustlang
p2p chat application:
youtu.be/ogN_mBkWu7o?...
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p2p chat, in rust, from scratch
YouTube video by number 0
https://youtu.be/ogN_mBkWu7o?si=1bc6xQR7BfMoyFfo
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dig
over 1 year ago
itโs long, itโs entertaining, itโs full of knowledge, learn how
@iroh.computer
works
youtu.be/AkHaIVuFHK4?...
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A tour of iroh
YouTube video by number 0
https://youtu.be/AkHaIVuFHK4?si=zPzUxX95T63wkIGd
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yiannis
over 1 year ago
Weekly Network Health Reports for the Filecoin DHT are now a thing - brought to you by
@probelab.io
! Reports live on
probelab.io
- latest one is here:
probelab.io/filecoin/dht...
- and are produced weekly on Mondays.
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https://probelab.io
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Yolan
over 1 year ago
Super excited to share this! I'm starting a new journey leading an awesome team to offer alternatives to centralized authorities in games, digital identities, and CBDCs
@randamu-labs.bsky.social
!
www.einpresswire.com/article/7619...
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Randamu Secures $3.3M in Pre-seed Funding Led by Protocol Labs Venture Studio to Advance Decentralized Technologies
Randamu, an innovator in secure, unbiased, and publicly-verifiable randomness technology, is proud to announce the successful conclusion of its pre-seed funding
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/761915628/randamu-secures-3-3m-in-pre-seed-funding-led-by-protocol-labs-venture-studio-to-advance-decentralized-technologies
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kasteph.eth
over 1 year ago
A lot of potential partners ask us
@probelab.io
how we crawl the networks. We don't keep it a secret, and the heart of it is
@dtrautwein.eu
's Nebula:
github.com/dennis-tra/n...
. It's open source, so you can run your own crawler, and it's also network agnostic. It can't get better than that!
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GitHub - dennis-tra/nebula: ๐ A network agnostic DHT crawler, monitor, and measurement tool that exposes timely information about DHT networks.
๐ A network agnostic DHT crawler, monitor, and measurement tool that exposes timely information about DHT networks. - dennis-tra/nebula
https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #22,085!
over 1 year ago
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kasteph.eth
over 1 year ago
It may come as a surprise, but most
@ethereum.bsky.social
nodes are not on the big 3 cloud providers. Only 1003/8825 nodes are on AWS, 83/8825 on GCP, 50/8825 on Azure. You can read about it in our weekly reports on
@probelab.io
For this week's report on Ethereum:
probelab.io/ethereum/dis...
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Jaz
over 2 years ago
I wrote up a blog post on our findings with scaling Go to 192 cores per machine and the limits we ran into with the Go runtime here:
jazco.dev/2024/01/10/g...
It was a really interesting problem to investigate and had us scratching our heads for a little bit but the performance gains are huge.
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 31 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3qnKPag
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/443cNFU
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IPFS
almost 3 years ago
Introducing... An Observatory for the IPFS Network ๐ญ We're excited to share that
@probelab.io
has worked hard over the past year to build a resilient & fully-automated infrastructure to monitor the performance of core IPFS stack protocols. Dive-in here:
https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-ipfs-observatory/
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An Observatory for the IPFS Network
The ProbeLab team has built a resilient and fully-automated infrastructure to monitor the performance of core IPFS protocols!
https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-ipfs-observatory/
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 27 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3pzBL1F
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/43d91cN
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 26 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3NJ5Cga
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/3NEk1Kg
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 25 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3JwUEcm
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/3r9523i
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 24 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3Pk4mT5
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/3XbFYVv
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 23 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/3NkA1Ch
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/3oZ1IHu
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Week 22 of 2023 ๐๏ธ Check out our newest report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics: ๐ Dive into the details:
https://bit.ly/43lLreM
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
https://bit.ly/43Iaybq
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ProbeLab
almost 3 years ago
Our brand new weekly report on
@ipfs.tech
network statistics is out: ๐ Dive into the details:
bit.ly/43PPRdN
๐ฅ Join the conversation:
bit.ly/3IIDJmw
๐ The network has done it again and grew by another 3k peers compared to last week! ๐ This means we've reached 32k DHT server peers ๐
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IPFS
almost 3 years ago
What happens if half of the network is down? In 90% of networks, or networked systems, this is a grand-scale disaster... but for IPFS it's a very different story. Find out what happens in a recent incident report published on the blog:
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What happens when half of the network is down?
The IPFS DHT experienced a serious incident in the beginning of 2023, but users hardly noticed thanks to the power of a decentralized network!
https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-ipfs-unresponsive-nodes/
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