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Comment by Ákos Kőműves on "Building a Full Stack Web3 YouTube Clone with Next, IPFS, The Graph, Solidity, and Livepeer" | Hashnode

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Ákos Kőműves

Full-Stack Developer and Writer

Sep 3, 2022

Hi Suhail!

This is a very comprehensive tutorial. I still have some questions. In the case of a decentralized YouTube alternative, do we store the actual videos on the blockchain?

Thanks

Suhail Kakar

DevRel Engineer @ Livepeer

Sep 3, 2022

Hey Akos,

Thank you for reading!

The videos are stored on IPFS. It is not a blockchain in and of itself but is intended to work with existing Blockchain protocols.

IPFS is a distributed system and peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol that allows users to store and access media and files.

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Ákos Kőműves

Full-Stack Developer and Writer

Sep 3, 2022

Thanks for the explanation. So if IPFS is not a blockchain, but somehow it's still decentralized?

Zakir Hussain

Sep 4, 2022

Ákos Kőműves I to have the same doubt.

Kenny James

Sep 7, 2022

Ákos Kőműves IPFS has all the characteristics of blockchain without costing thousands of dollars to store data. They are decentralised, reliable, censorship-resistant and off-chain solutions for mega data storage.