Hi, I’ve opened the IPFS interface and at the end of the section Status there is network traffic with the outgoing and incoming entries. I would like to know what exactly these entries indicate. Thank you

Have a look at the documentation for ipfs stats bw: [image] CLI commands Command-line interace (CLI) reference materials for IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System. By default it should show all traffic for all protocols and all peers. In is receiving and out is s…

Sadly IPFS isn’t that far in development yet, that it will intelligently store any data on your computer at all. The traffic that you’re seeing is just ‘beeing part of the network’ in terms of the connection is established and you’re part of index which is hold of all data stored on other computers…

Ok, thank you. I have another question. Are there any applications that use Ipfs? If yes, could you tell me one?

See https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs#apps

IPFS clusters, on the other hand, will store data intelligently on your computer (especially collaborative clusters ). But clusters are on an opt-in basis.

Yeah sure, but (judging from the version number) IPFS is early in it’s development. So this might change in the future. :slight_smile:

It might, but I don’t think it will much. Having the files cached by those who consume it enables having the caching to scale naturaly with the demand. Over-caching it would be wasteful, and ressourses won’t be allocated to store something useful (another content requested a lot). The exceptions wou…

Yes you’re right, but I would love to see IPFS adapt a Web of Trust, like adding people you know by public keys, connecting to them and give them the ability to store some data on your nodes.

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alelib January 27, 2020, 1:03pm 3

I would like to know if incoming means the files that other peers are storing on me and outgoing means the blocks that I am sending to those who need them.

Best Regard

Alessia

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