Questions tagged [swarm]
incentivised, censorship-resistant decentralised storage
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What is Swarm and what is it used for?
What is Swarm and what is it used for? And what is Swarm's relationship with Whisper?
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What are some proposed ways of storing data in Ethereum?
I keep reading that swarm or ipfs would be used for storage, but how would that work exactly? Would an ethereum contract store its data in these data blockchains? I thought ethereum smart contracts ...
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What is the difference between Swarm and IPFS?
IPFS seems a little slow on existing dapps. will Swarm load content more quickly? Also- is there a roadmap for swarm?
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How can I store big files on the blockchain?
I can hardly create transactions larger than 100kiB. I am wondering, is it possible to store huge files (several MiB or GiB) on the blockchain?
If so, how?
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Question on the terms 'distributed' and 'decentralised'
I am writing a paper on distributed ledger technologies, an umbrella term I have borrowed to put everything that has any relation to blockchains and distributed consensus. Under this umbrella term I ...
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Truffle framework with storage
How can I integrate truffle with swarm or ipfs for permanent document storage?
Are there any libraries?
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How does the incentive system for Swarm work?
I have skimmed some of the documentation/white paper for Swarm, the decentralized storage system, but I'm having difficulty understanding how the incentive system works (i.e. motivation for people to ...
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How does one enable and use SWARM demon & Whisper messaging functionality provided by Geth 1.5?
The release notes for Geth 1.5 states that:
The Swarm daemon (bzzd) and associated helper tools are included and
somewhat functional. Whisper v5 PoC code is included in the
repository, but not ...
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Is possible to transfer data between nodes using cpp-ethereum's whisper protocol?
Right now I am working on developing a standalone application in C++ using libraries of cpp-ethereum, I was looking at the source code for cpp-ethereum and an idea stuck into my mind that wouldn't it ...
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How to verify smart contracts on different solidity versions
I'd like to build my own smart contract verify system with all solidity versions both on single file and multiple files just like what etherscan or other block explorer does.
I was able to verify for ...
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How long do my files stay on IPFS when I upload it?
I'm trying to grasp the concept of how IPFS works. Say if I upload 1GB of data to IPFS. How long does it stay there? Or do I have to leave my computer on at all times for the file to be live on the ...
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Quorum Swarm: Can't find swarm account: no key for given address or file [duplicate]
While using Swarm in Quorum, I am getting the following error: Can't find swarm account: no key for given address or file
Any similar encounters?
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Using EVM or Swarm for datastore
I want to maintain a datastore of key value pairs. For example, I have users of my dapp input their favorite food. I would like to map their account to the food name. It is my understanding that I can ...
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