Ethereum for Dummies
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
Topic
Getting Started
A collection of 7 issues
Glossary
Here you can find the meanings of frequently used terms in p2p space.
Circuit Relay
A means of establishing communication between peers who are unable to communicate directly, with the assistance of a third peer willing and able to act as an intermediary.
In many real-world peer-to-peer networks, direct communication
What is Libp2p?
Good question! The one-liner pitch is that libp2p is a modular system of protocols, specifications and libraries that enable the development of peer-to-peer network applications.
Why Libp2p
Welcome! If you're new to Libp2p, you've come to the right place. Before understanding what is Libp2p, let's first see why do we need Libp2p in the first place and Why do we need to rethink networking in 2019?
In order to understand its
Going Online
In this lesson we are going to:
* Connect your local IPFS node to the public network.
* Uploading data to the public IPFS network.
* Fetching data from public IPFS network.
* Using GUI to visualize IPFS local repo, network activities, etc.
If you have not installed IPFS yet, go to install section.
Initialize your IPFS Repository
In this lesson we are going to:
* Initialize a local IPFS repository
* Use IPFS to explore the post-install documentation
* Locate where IPFS stores the contents of your local IPFS repository
* Open and understand the IPFS Configuration file
If you don't have IPFS installed on your device, then install
Installing IPFS
There are a variety of ways to install a copy of IPFS on your system. We generally recommend installing a prebuilt package, but here are a few other supported options:
* Installing from a Prebuilt Package (recommended)
* Installing with ipfs-update
* Building from source
* Upgrading IPFS
* Troubleshooting
Note these instructions all make