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Share file with ipfs

Warning: Only tested serving the file, not downloading it

1. Install ipfs
2. Initiate ipfs main folder ipfs init, not sure why but this is required for following commands
3. Serve a file ipfs add {filepath}. It should return something like this

added QmdsEVLRXioANssEVLRXYioANsGtANsGtRXYioANsGtAWZ file.md
 37.62 KiB / 37.62 KiB [===========================] 100.00%

4. Start server with ipfs daemon
5. Download file from any device ipfs get /ipfs/QmdsEVLRXioANssEVLRXYioANsGtANsGtRXYioANsGtAWZ <-- that's the hash returned from previous command

$ ls
QmdsEVLRXioANssEVLRXYioANsGtANsGtRXYioANsGtAWZ

Note the filename is just the hash, the original filename is lost.

Haven't researched if there's an easy way to persist the filename

What led to learning this

• Random news of ipfs in HN. It just reminded me I've never tried it out.
  And in recent months I've had difficulty sharing files p2p