> Cloudflare has an advantage that no other company in this space — and very few in the industry — have: a global network. For instance, content fetched through our IPFS Gateway can be cached near users, allowing download latency in the milliseconds. Compare this with up to seconds per asset using native IPFS. This speed enables services based on IPFS to go hybrid. Content can be served over the source decentralised protocols while browsers and tools are maturing to access them, and served to regular web users through a gateway like Cloudflare. We do provide a convenient, fast and secure option to browse this distributed content.<p>It's wild to see people who love the word "decentralized" also love it when an organization tries to <i>centralize</i> a something that's decentralized. It's really hard in these times to know if someone is trying to pump and dump for sure, or if they're being genuine.
This indicates that Cloudflare are publicly announcing and soliciting application for beta access to their IPFS and Ethereum (JSON RPC) gateways. This is incredibly exciting, and, coupled with the recent R2 announcement, suggests they are very much going to be disrupting existing spaces AND defining new markets (as the Stratechery article also recently posted on HN also describes).<p>Bullish on Cloudflare :)
Many are missing what Cloudflare is doing. They are taking over every aspect of the web and beyond. I see their market cap being $300B in less than 5 years easily.
What would be cool is to hook the Lightning Network up to NGINX to implement 402s with micro Bitcoin payments, in exchange for content or processing of some ML thing.<p>The response code has literally been sitting there all this time, waiting for an implementation of crypto for access.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402</a>
So, it seems like you'd still need to use metamask (or similar) to store your keys and sign transactions. Then metamask (or similar) could call cloudflare to publish the transaction.<p>Metamask is a giant pain for new users. I was hoping this would somehow get rid of it. Perhaps the browsers could integate this functionality.
> Unless you happen to hang out with the Web3 community in Hong Kong, San Francisco, and London<p>Pretty funny. I'm sure NYC and Seattle have blockchain dev scenes than London. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Globally_prominent_clusters" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Glo...</a>