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Trent from BigchainDB wrote a really great article called [The DCS Triangle](https://medium.com/the-bigchaindb-blog/the-dcs-triangle-5ce0e9e0f1dc) which suggests decentralization, Consistency, and Scale being the three things different protocols can optimize for. As you say, there are also degrees of each of those, and the article gave me a good understanding of which trade offs are even possible. Trent also reviews #IPFS in his write up. I'm very interested in what happens with it as it doesn't have anything related to currency built into the system.
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Good stuff thanks for sharing. As far as I know, IPFS is struggling on performance because there's not enough nodes running in the system due to lack of incentives. So they're launch a token (filecoin) that they hope will change that .
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There will be a variety of incentives around the base protocol. I like that's not tightly coupled to currency. It makes IPFS a natural complement to a variety of other systems. You can't really call a protocol "struggling" -- adoption and resiliency are issues, for sure, but the inherent nature of the protocol make it very well suited to sharing certain types of information. For instance, posting images and other binary files to steemit via IPFS could be very interesting. The content hash would be encoded with the blog post, and could be served a number of different ways.
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Why can't you call a protocol struggling? IPFS is struggling on performance. Services actively aren't using the IPFS protocol because of lack of speed and uptime. Again, once filecoin is launched the hope is that will change because more IPFS nodes will have incentives to run in the network.
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